Meänkieli

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people mainly in Northern Sweden. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Swedish.

Origin

  • From the native Meänkieli term meänkieli, from meän kieli.

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