English Explanatory Dictionary

Meänkieli

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people mainly in Northern Sweden. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Swedish.

Word forms

Meänkieli Mean Kieli

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Finnic *mek Finnish me Finnish meidän Meänkieli meän Proto-Finnic *keeli Finnish kieli Meänkieli kieli Meänkieli meänkielibor. English Meänkieli From the native Meänkieli term meänkieli, from meän kieli (“our language”).

Synonyms

North Finnish Torne Valley Finnish Tornedalen Tornedalen Finnish Tornedalsfinska

Related words

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