GK
COUNTRY LANGUAGES
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Somalia
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Finland
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Seychelles
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Czech Republic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most Finnish speakers live in Finland, though some live in Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Russia and North America. Finnish is one of the two official languages in Finland (the other being Swedish) and one of the official languages of the European Union. It also has minority language status in Sweden.
Detailed explanation-2: -The official languages (national languages) of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. In addition to Finnish and Swedish, there are other languages in Finland whose users’ rights are laid down in law. The Saami languages are the languages of the indigenous population of Finland.
Detailed explanation-3: -Finnish is the language of the majority, 86.9% of the population in 2020. It is a Finnic language closely related to Estonian and less closely to the Sami languages.
Detailed explanation-4: -Finnish belongs to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages, being most closely related to Estonian, Livonian, Votic, Karelian, Veps, and Ingrian.