The Finnish language

For those foreigners who would like know about the Finnish language (ISO 639 code: fi, Finnish name: suomi) I have a few things to offer:

The e-books Introduction to Finnish and Handbook of Finnish. There is also Handbook of Finnish, 2nd edition as a web site.

Some web pages:

  1. A short introduction to Finnish.
  2. Pronunciation information.
  3. Pronunciation of Finnish in a nutshell (for linguists).
  4. Some examples of Finnish words and phrases.
  5. Information about the cases in Finnish.
  6. Modes of verbs in Finnish
  7. Consonant gradation in Finnish – the true story
  8. "False friends" in English and Finnish.
  9. Letters in Finnish. The use of alphabetic characters in Finnish texts.
  10. Consonant assimilation at word boundaries in Finnish; the (in)famous gemination phenomenon
  11. Finnish language and localization: an executive summary
Date of last revision: 2025-09-08.
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