Norway Sweden Finland Language
Finnish is also an official minority language in sweden in sweden both standard finnish and meänkieli its own language or.
Norway sweden finland language. Swedish is the official language of sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10 million inhabitants of the country. Beside these and the insular scandinavian languages faroese and icelandic which are also north germanic languages there are the finnic and sami branches of the uralic languages spoken in finland and in northern norway sweden and finland respectively. For more than four centuries norway had been ruled by denmark danish kings and the official language was danish. Finnish whose endonym is suomi or suomen kieli ˈsuo meŋ ˈkie li is a uralic language of the finnic branch spoken by the majority of the population in finland and by ethnic finns outside finland.
The eastern half came to constitute the autonomous grand duchy of finland in personal union with imperial russia. It is a north germanic language and quite similar to its sister scandinavian languages danish and norwegian with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forming a dialect continuum. Regulated by the norwegian language council norwegian has two official written forms bokmål and nynorsk. In 1809 the realm was split after the finnish war.
There are around 5 million native norwegian speakers and it is the official language of norway. Finnish along with swedish is an official language of finland.