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Torne Valley Finnish

Torne Valley Finnish proper noun: meänkieli (language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden).

Proper noun

Torne Valley Finnish

  1. Meänkieli (language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden)

Origin of Torne Valley Finnish

After Torne, the name of the river that separates Finland and Sweden in the north; compare Swedish tornedalsfinska and Finnish tornionlaaksonsuomi.

Questions about Torne Valley Finnish

What does Torne Valley Finnish mean?
Torne Valley Finnish means meänkieli (language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden).
What part of speech is Torne Valley Finnish?
Torne Valley Finnish is a proper noun.

Words near Torne Valley Finnish in the dictionary

  1. tornarias
  2. tornato
  3. Tornatore
  4. Tornatores
  5. torne
  6. Torne Valley Finnish
  7. torneament
  8. torneaments
  9. Tornedalen
  10. Torneträsk
  11. torni

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Torne Valley Finnish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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