Finnish Transcription Services
Finnish language is part of the Finnic group of the Uralic language family. It is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish), spoken by a population of 5 million native speakers. There are notable Finnish speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, Canada, Brazil, and the United States. There are two main varieties of Finnish used throughout the country: the “standard language” (yleiskieli), and the other is the “spoken language” (puhekieli).