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Siikainen is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...


It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 1,866 (2003) and covers an area of 490.98 km² of which 30.58 km² is water. The population density is 4.1 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Western Finland is a province of Finland. ... Satakunta is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...


The municipality is unilingually Finnish.


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The Social Origin of the Left-Wing Radicals and 'Church Finns' among Finnish Immigrants in North America (2302 words)
The obituaries of those who came from Merikarvia and Siikainen are to be found principally in the Rightist newspapers, while the obituaries of those from other areas are to be found in the Leftist press.
If the emigrants from Merikarvia and Siikainen are compared with those from the other areas in the sample, it will be found that in Merikarvia and Siikainen only the social group classified under the heading of farmers furnished proportionally more Leftists in America than those emigrating from the other areas.
The large proportion of casual labourers among the emigrants from Merikarvia and Siikainen indicates rather that the reverse is true.
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In some dialects such as the Siikainen dialect hän and he are also used in other forms of discourse.
In "extensions" of reported discourse in the Siikainen dialect, hän and he are often used, although se and ne are also possible (in reporting proper, only hän and he are used).
In the Siikainen dialect it also seems that in factual, time-bound contexts hän/he are often chosen although se/ne also occur.
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