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North Finnish
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English
Proper noun
North Finnish
A generic name for a number of Finnish dialects spoken in the Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway. Two of them, Meänkieli (or Torne Valley Finnish) in Sweden and Kven in Norway are officially recognized as minority languages in their respective countries, and are currently considered separate languages. Their structure and grammar are similar to Finnish but the vocabularies are considerably influenced by the majority language of their country.
en Finnish
en Kven Meänkieli Torne Valley Finnish
Further reading
Wikipedia article on Torne Valley Finnish
Wikipedia article on Kven language