Torne Valley Finnish

E367598

Torne Valley Finnish, also known as Meänkieli, is a Finnic minority language spoken primarily in Sweden’s Torne Valley region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Torne Valley Finnish canonical 3
Tornedalian Finnish 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language
Finnic language
Uralic language
minority language
minority language
regional language
alternativeName Meänkieli
Torne Valley Finnish
closelyRelatedTo Finnish
Kven language
countryOfRecognition Sweden
ethnicGroup Tornedalians
hasDialects Haparanda dialect
Pajala dialect
Övertorneå dialect
hasRegulatoryOrAdvocacyBody Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore (for Meänkieli)
influencedBy Swedish language
ISO639-3Code fit
languageFamily Finnic
Uralic
linked to: Uralic languages
lexicalSimilarityWith Finnish
linked to: Meänkieli
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageSince 2000
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Sweden
region Torne River Valley
linked to: Torne River valley

Tornedalen
spokenBy Tornedalians
spokenIn Norrbotten County
Sweden
Torne Valley
northern Sweden
status endangered language
subgroupOf Finnish language continuum
usedIn education in parts of Norrbotten County
local media in northern Sweden
usesOrthographyBasedOn Finnish orthography
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Meänkieli hasAlternativeName Tornedalian Finnish
linked to: Torne Valley Finnish
Meänkieli hasAlternativeName Torne Valley Finnish
Meänkieli alternativeName Torne Valley Finnish
subject linked to: Torne Valley Finnish
Meän kieli alsoKnownAs Tornedalian Finnish
linked to: Torne Valley Finnish
Meän kieli alsoKnownAs Torne Valley Finnish