What is the official language of Finland?
Finnish
Swedish
Finland/Official languages
Can you speak English in Finland?
English. The English language is spoken by most Finns. Official statistics in 2012 show that at least 70% of Finnish people can speak English. In 2021, Juhana Vartiainen, the mayor of Helsinki, proposed declaring Helsinki an English-speaking city.
Why is Finnish so difficult?
The 15 grammatical cases in Finnish make it a challenging language to learn as the smallest change in the end of the word can significantly change its meaning. Case endings are added to word stems as suffixes and are used to express the same things that prepositions express in English.
Is Finnish similar to Russian?
Many people assume that Finnish is closely related to either Swedish or Russian, as Sweden and Russia are both important neighbouring countries. However, that is not the case. Swedish and Russian are both Indo-European languages, whereas Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family of languages.
Can Finns speak Russian?
Russian. The Russian language is the third most spoken native language in Finland (1.5%). The Russian language has no official status in Finland, though historically it served as the third co-official language with Finnish and Swedish for a relatively brief period between 1900 and 1917.
Is Finnish or Russian harder?
Finnish grammar is much more difficult for English speakers than Russian.
What is palatalization in Indo-Aryan languages?
In Indo-Aryan languages, dentals and /r/ are palatalized when occurring in clusters before /j/, but velars are not. Palatalization sometimes refers to vowel shifts, the fronting of a back vowel or raising of a front vowel. The shifts are sometimes triggered by a nearby palatal or palatalized consonant or by a high front vowel.
What is the meaning of palatalization?
pal·a·tal·i·za·tion | \\ ˌpa-lə-tə-lə-ˈzā-shən \\. 1 : the quality or state of being palatalized. 2 : an act or instance of palatalizing an utterance in rapid speech the \\\ in got undergoes palatalization before you to yield \\ˈgächə\\.
What are the two types of palatalization in the Slavic languages?
In the Slavic languages, two palatalizations took place. Both affected the Proto-Slavic velars *k *g *x. In the first palatalization, the velars before the front vowels *e *ē *i *ī or the palatal approximant *j changed to *č *ž *š.
What is the palatalization of the K?
The first palatalization was unconditioned: the /k/ was vocalized to [i̯t] or spirantized to [çt]. In a second palatalization, the /t/ was affricated to [tʃ] :