About 5 million people speak Finnish natively, most of whom live in Finland and in parts of Sweden.
Around 5.5 million people speak Finnish. Those who speak Finnish as a second language are part of significant minorities in Estonia, Russia, Norway, and Brazil.
Of the Uralic languages, Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language that has the same roots as Estonian but is entirely different to other neighbouring languages such as Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.
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