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Name:
Finnish, Tornedalen
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tornedalen; North Finnish; Torne Valley Finnish; Meänkieli; Tornedalsfinska
Spoken in:
Finland, Sweden
Number of speakers:
79,600 in Sweden (2000). 40,000 to 70,000 in the main region (1997), and including 20,000 who speak it in the home (1996). Population total all countries: 109,600
(Ethnologue)
Code:
fit
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed)
Parent Subgroup:
Finnic; Baltic-Fennic; Baltic Finnic; Balto-Finnic; ostseefinnische Sprachen; Ostseefinnisch; Späturfinnisch; West Finnic; Baltic-Finnic; balto-finnois; Balto-Fennic; Fennic; Baltic sea Finnic; Proto-Finnic (bfin)
Child Dialects:
Gällivare Finnish; Tornedalen; Meänkieli; Torne Valley Finnish; Tornedalsfinska; North Finnish (fit-gal)
Torne Valley Finnish (fit-tor)
Vittangi Finnish (fit-vit)

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