Meänkieli
Facts
- Language: Meänkieli
- Alternate names: Tornionlaakson Suomi, Torne Valley Finnish, Meän Suomi, Tornedalen Finnish
- Language code: fit
- Language family: Uralic, Finnic, Coastal Finnic, Neva, North Finnic, Nuclear Finnish
- Number of speakers: 20,000
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Latin script.
More information:
Some speakers refer to it as Finnish. Influences from Swedish (See: [[Swedish]]). Finnish speakers settled here 12th century. Christian.
Ausbau-language on the far end of the Finnish dialect continuum, closest to Far-Northern Finnish but heavily influenced by Swedish loanwords, syntax, and phonetics