The Baltic Finnic or Balto-Finnic peoples, also referred to as the Baltic Sea Finns, Baltic Finns, sometimes Western Finnic and often simply as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Balto-Finnic languages.They include the Finns, Estonians (including Võros and Setos), Karelians (including Ludes and Olonets), …

A Finnic-speaking tribe known as the Livs settled among the Latvians and modulated the name to "Latvis", meaning "forest-clearers", ... Another notable language of Latvia is the nearly extinct Livonian language of Baltic-Finnic sub-branch of Uralic language family, which enjoys protection by law. The Latgalian language (a dialect of Latvian) is ...

This web edition of the Ethnologue may be cited as: Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2022.Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty ...

Finnish (suomi) is a Uralic language (thus, unlike most languages in Europe, it is not Indo-European) belonging to the Finnic branch of the family along with Estonian, with which it is not mutually intelligible, and a few other languages. The language is also considered to be a distant relative of Hungarian too.

May 16, 2022 · Finnish is part of the Finnic group of the Uralic languages, which also include Estonian and Hungarian. Swedish is also an official language of Finland and Swedish-speaking Finns constitute 5% of the population; this dialect is called Finland Swedish.