Finnish is a part of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, unlike neighboring language (Russian and Swedish); this Finno-Urgic language group includes Hungarian, Sami, Estonian, as well as some lesser known languages in Russia. Linguistically, there are a lot of differences between the languages in this group mostly probably due to these languages evolving separately over thousands of years. Also, interestingly, scholars think Finland has been inhabited by speakers of this Finno-Urgic language since 3,000 B.C if not prior.

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Today, there are roughly 5.4 million native Finnish speakers, most of which live in and around Finland. The Finnish writing system uses the Latin-script alphabet derived from the Swedish alphabet. 

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