Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Finland!

Languages of Finland: A view of an illuminated Helsinki Cathedral at night

Known for being the happiest country in the world and for its saunas, Finland isn’t particularly well known for its linguistic diversity. Yet the languages of Finland are some of the most impressive of any European country we’ve studied to date.

Home to almost two dozen languages from three continents and nearly 20 different language families, no one can deny that Finland’s linguistic diversity isn’t impressive…

Official Languages of Finland

Finnish

Swedish

Minority Languages of Finland

Sami

Karelian

Kalo

Immigrant Languages of Finland

Hebrew

Yiddish

Tatar

Russian

Estonian

Somali

Arabic

Kurdish

Albanian

Chinese

Vietnamese

Persian

Thai

Spanish

Urdu

Turkish

Foreign Languages of Finland

English

French

German