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 first piece of Finnish literature was a translation of the New Testament by Michael Agricola, a Finish bishop, which was published in 1548. He created an orthography for Finnish based on western dialect of Finnish, and Swedish, German and Latin spelling. This orthography has since been revised. Finnish alphabet (suomen aakkoset)

Finnish (endonym: suomi ⓘ or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.

The phonemic template of a syllable in Finnish is (C)V(C)(C), in which C can be an obstruent or a liquid consonant. V can be realized as a doubled vowel or a diphthong. A final consonant of a Finnish word, though not a syllable, must be a coronal one; Standard Finnish does not allow final clusters of two consonants.

2024年11月7日 · Š (hattu-s, suhu-s, [ʃ]) and Ž (hattu-z, [ʒ]) appear in loanwords and are recognized as part of the Finnish orthography. They are, however, not considered letters of the Finnish alphabet. They are often replaced with the digraphs sh and zh for technical reasons.

The Finnish orthography is morphemic, and the morphemic notation is built upon the phonetic principle: with just a few subtle exceptions, within a single morpheme, each phoneme (distinct sound) of the language is represented by exactly one grapheme (independent letter), and each grapheme represents exactly one phoneme, if the morpheme is ...

Finnish orthography is highly phonemic, meaning that the spelling closely reflects the pronunciation. The language employs a series of doubled letters to indicate long vowel or consonant sounds (e.g., “kukka” meaning flower, and “mukava” meaning comfortable).

Finnish employs the Latin alphabet, supplemented with a few special characters such as ‘ä’ and ‘ö’. One striking feature of Finnish orthography is its phonemic nature, meaning each phoneme (distinct unit of sound) is represented by a single letter, and …

This article examines the standardization of Finnish orthography, concen-trating on the two periods of rapid development: the 16th and the 19th cen-turies. The first part discusses the role of the Western Church at the early stages of written Finnish: conversion to Christianity and especially the Lu-

As a result of conscious planning and goal-directed developing, the Finnish language reached the level of a civilized language that can be used in science, arts, and politics. It was also a hundred years ago that the present orthography of the Finnish language was established.