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Finnish Characterized Finnish Characterized: by Eugene Holman. General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages. (Finnish) http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/finlang.html An Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish An Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish: On-line corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish. Includes transcriptions and sound samples. (Finnish) http://helmer.hit.uib.no/Ingrisk/ingrian.html The Finnish Language The Finnish Language: Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish. Links to Finnish resources on the Internet. [By Jukka Korpela] (Finnish) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html The Finnish Language Site The Finnish Language Site: Articles on the Finnish language and its history, learning resources, and a mailing list for beginners who wish to learn Finnish. (Finnish) http://members.tripod.com/suomenkieli/ Frequently Asked Questions about Finno-Ugrian Languages Frequently Asked Questions about Finno-Ugrian Languages: by Johanna Laakso. Is Finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do Finnish words come from? A Finno-Ugric linguist answers these and other common questions. (Finnish) http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html Learn Finnish Learn Finnish: Online aid to learning Finnish vocabulary. The site is free, but registration is necessary. (Finnish) http://www.filanya.com/finnish/ Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi: Brief, well-organized (if rather incomplete) introduction to Finnish grammar. Trilingual site (English/German/Finnish). (Finnish) http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/ Verbix - Verb Conjugator Verbix - Verb Conjugator: On-line verb conjugation service for Finnish and 50+ other languages. Includes list of 10,000 most frequent Finnish words. (Finnish) http://www.verbix.com/languages/finnish.shtml Finnish Nominals Declination - SparroW Finnish Nominals Declination - SparroW: Automated presentation of noun declension in Finnish. The user is asked to supply a Finnish noun (it may even be a loanword), and the program will supply all its declensional forms. (Finnish) http://213.28.175.242:8080/SparroWWeb Suomen-nimi - The Finnish Names Database Suomen-nimi - The Finnish Names Database: Database of Finnish or Suomi names. (Finnish) http://membres.lycos.fr/callens/fin/ Lingsoft, Inc. Lingsoft, Inc.: Finnish language technology company, offers proofreading and other software for Finnish and other Nordic languages. (Finnish) http://www.lingsoft.fi/ Virittäjä Virittäjä: A linguistic quarterly published by Kotikielen Seura (The Mother Tongue Society). Summaries in English. (Finnish) http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/english/ Finnish as a World Language? Finnish as a World Language?: A humorous article by Richard Lewis. (Finnish) http://www.helsinki.fi/~jshermun/intercultural/wlanguage.html An Introduction to "Finglish" An Introduction to "Finglish": A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen). (Finnish) http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/P1/finglish.html The Finnish Language (Who's Afraid of Finnish?) The Finnish Language (Who's Afraid of Finnish?): by Hannele Branch. Virtual Finland's extensive guide to the distinctive features of Finnish, attempting to answer the question, "Is Finnish a difficult language?" (Finnish) http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnlang.html Phonetics of Finnish Phonetics of Finnish: Information on Finnish words and their phonetic structure, from the Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki. Bilingual page (English and Finnish). (Finnish) http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/hyfl/Finnish_Phonetics/index_eng.html The Finnish Centre for Technical Terminology The Finnish Centre for Technical Terminology: A language service in Finland which compiles vocabularies of specialized terminology for various technical fields. (Finnish) http://www.tsk.fi/index-en.html Yahoo Groups : Finnish Yahoo Groups : Finnish: Discussion list for people studying Finnish language and culture in Finland or elsewhere. (Finnish) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Finnish/ Employment of Foreigners Hampered by Language Barriers and Attitudes Employment of Foreigners Hampered by Language Barriers and Attitudes: by Vellamo Vehkakoski. Helsingin Sanomat article describing language acquisition as an obstacle for foreigners seeking jobs in Finland. (Finnish) http://www.helsinki-hs.net/thisweek/20112000.html Sounds of the World's Animals Sounds of the World's Animals: A list of how Finnish represents the sounds animals make. (Finnish) http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/finnish.html The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland: Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland. (Finnish) http://www.kotus.fi/inenglish/ A Chance to Speak Finnish A Chance to Speak Finnish: On this page you can learn Finnish words and phrases by listening. Plus a song about the Finnish language in RealAudio. (Finnish) http://virtual.finland.fi/speak/speak.html Yamada Language Center WWW Guide: Finnish Language Yamada Language Center WWW Guide: Finnish Language: A guide to Internet resources on the study of the Finnish language. (Finnish) http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/finnish.html