Uralic family
Finnish
1500 CE – today Living
Finnish (1500 CE – today) is a living Uralic language. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Finnic → Finnish.
See Finnish on the interactive map- Speakers
- 5.4M (5,400,000)
- ISO 639-3
- fin
- Glottocode
- finn1318
Member of the Finnic branch (with Estonian, Karelian, etc.). Standardisation began with Mikael Agricola's 1548 New Testament translation.
Lineage
- Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Finnicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Finnish1500 CE – today
Sister languages 4
Also descended from Proto-Finnic.