Meän kieli

E367599

Meän kieli is a Finnic minority language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Tornedalian people in northern Sweden and Finland.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Meän kieli canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ
minority language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Torne Valley Finnish ⓘ
Tornedalian Finnish ⓘ
basicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Finnish language ⓘ
country Finland ⓘ
Sweden ⓘ
endangeredStatus minority language with limited number of speakers ⓘ
ethnicGroup Tornedalians ⓘ
hasCulturalAssociationWith Tornedalian culture ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Finnish language ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Finnish language ⓘ
Swedish language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Swedish language ⓘ
hasRegulation Swedish Language Act (2009) regarding national minority languages ⓘ
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Swedish language authorities and Tornedalian organizations ⓘ
influencedBy Swedish language ⓘ
ISO639-3Code fit ⓘ
languageFamily Uralic languages ⓘ
languageSubfamily Finnic languages ⓘ
languageType spoken language ⓘ
legalStatus national minority language of Sweden ⓘ
nativeName meänkieli ⓘ
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Sweden ⓘ
region Torne Valley ⓘ
northern Finland ⓘ
linked to: Northern Finland

northern Sweden ⓘ
relatedTo Kven language ⓘ
statusInSweden official minority language ⓘ
subclassOf Finnic language ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ
typology agglutinative language ⓘ
usedBy Tornedalian community ⓘ
usedInEducationIn parts of northern Sweden ⓘ
usedInMediaIn Sweden ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

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

Meänkieli → hasAlternativeName → Meän kieli ⓘ