Meshcherian was the Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Meshchera tribe, in what is today the Oka River basin in Russia. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya. Meshcherian was probably extinct by the 16th century. Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). ... Ока Length 1,500 km Elevation of the source ? m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed ? km² Origin ? Mouth Volga River Basin countries Russia Oka (Russian: Ока́) is a great river in Russia, right confluent of Volga. ... The Moksha language is spoken mostly in South of the Republic of Mordovia in Russia. ... Erzya (Эрзянь Кель (Erzjanj Kelj)) is spoken in the northern part of the republic of Mordovia in Russia. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
The spoken language, on the other hand, is the main variety of Finnish to be used in popular TV and radio shows, at workplaces and may be preferred to speaking a dialect in personal communication.
It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in some parts of Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugriclanguage family and is typologically an agglutinative language.
Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 6% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
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