Finnish orthography is based on the Latin script, and uses an alphabet derived from the Swedish alphabet, officially comprising twenty-nine letters but also including two additional letters found in some loanwords.

The Finnish script was invented by Sascha Mücke in an effort to create a writing system for Finnish that reflects the language's phonological simplicity and clarity with its perfectly symmetric vowel harmony. There is a one-to-one correspondence between its letters and the Latin letters of the Finnish alphabet currently in use.

2023年3月16日 · I learned that the original set was designed by architect Toivo Salervo in the beginning of the 1930s. The published set for schools is from 1931. The design was modelled on 18th-century English copperplate cursive, and meant to enable writing without lifting the pen from the paper as much as possible. The design was simplified slightly in 1950.

2023年9月6日 · Finland’s National Core Curriculum provides broad directions for the methods and materials to be used for teaching, and comprises separate documents that outline in detail the needs for different levels of education.

The new system is based on Nordic cooperation on handwriting in schools that took place from 2002 to 2004. It originates in the cursive form developed to write Romanic languages that allows producing text as efficiently as possible without many interruptions caused by …

2016年8月23日 · This writing model will be used in virtually every Finnish primary and pre-primary school across the country from August 2016 on. Only a so called print writing will be provided by FNBE leaving the joined-up cursive writing – as we've known it – in the past.

2017年2月6日 · No more Cursive Writing in Finland’s schools: Finland started a new Curriculum in August 2016. While children in the past were taught to print in years 1 and 2 and introduced to Cursive writing in Year 3, that is no longer the case. I observed as a Year 2 teacher explained to her students how writing in Finland’s schools was changing.

2017年7月26日 · For people who are learning or want to learn the Finnish language. I understand that Finland phased out teaching cursive in school some time ago; but as someone who appreciates calligraphy—and heck, it's still relevant to taking notes—I'm curious as to how native Finns write their umlauts.

The Finnish vocabulary is very unique (unless you know Estonian or a few other languages). It is also in the same family as Hungarian, though a Hungarian once told me “English and Russian are about as close as Hungarian and

Cursive Writing in Finland advertisement Finland to remove cursive handwriting from education curriculum The move has sparked debate over the future of handwriting in the classroom.