Finnish, Tornedalen
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- Language: Finnish Tornedalen
- Alternate names: Tornedalen, Meänkieli, Torne Valley Finnish, Tornedalsfinska, North Finnish
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:fit
- Language family: Uralic, Finnic
- Number of speakers: 109,579
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Meänkieli (lit. "our language") is spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Meänkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish, but for political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden.
In Swedish nowadays the language is usually referred to as Meänkieli by the authorities; a common, and older, name is tornedalsfinska which literally means "Torne Valley Finnish".
The Verb
Sample verb: saađa 'to get'
| INDICATIVE | ||
| Present | Past | |
| Sg.1 | olen | olin |
| Sg.2 | olet | olit |
| Sg.3 | on / oon | oli |
| Pl.1 | olema | olima |
| Pl.2 | oletta | olitta |
| Pl.3 | on / oon | olit |
forms in italics differ from standard written Finnish.
References
http://www.nordfinska.se(approve sites)