What is Finnish language?
{{Infobox language |name=Finnish |nativename=''{{lang|fi|suomen kieli}}'' |pronunciation={{IPA-fi|ˈsuo̯mi|}} |states=[[Finland]], [[Estonia]], [[Ingria]], [[Karelia]], [[Norway]], [[Sweden]] |region = |speakers= c. To5 million |date=2011 |ref=e16 |script=[[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Finnish alphabet]])<br>[[Finnish Braille]] |familycolor=Uralic |fam2=[[Finnic languages|Finnic]] |fam3=[[Northern Finnic languages|Northern Finnic]] |nation={{FIN}}<br>{{EU}}<br>recognised as minority language in:<br> {{flag|Sweden}}<ref>Finnish is one of the Official [[Minority languages of Sweden]]</ref><br> ''{{flag|Russia|name=Russian Federation}}:'' * [[Republic of Karelia|Karelia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gov.karelia.ru/Legislation/lawbase.html?lid=1751 |title=О государственной поддержке карельского, вепсского и финского языков в Республике Карелия |language=ru |publisher=gov.karelia.ru |date= |accessdate=2011-12-06 |archive-date=2017-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011113305/http://gov.karelia.ru/Legislation/lawbase.html?lid=1751 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |agency=Language Planning Department of the [[Institute for the Languages of Finland]] |iso1=fi|iso2=fin|iso3=fin |map=Finnish language map, large areas.png |mapcaption= {{legend|#010080|Official language.}} {{legend|#008283|Spoken by a minority.}} |notice=IPA }} '''Finnish''' ({{lang-fi|suomen kieli}}) is a [[Uralic languages|Uralic language]]. It is one of the two official languages of [[Finland]]. It is also an official [[minority language]] in [[Sweden]]. Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language]]. The other two are [[Estonian language|Estonian]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], which are also [[Uralic languages]], and [[Basque language|Basque]]. == Related languages == The Finnish grammar and most Finnish words are very different from those in other European languages, because Finnish is not an Indo-European language. The two other national languages that are Uralic