Finnish
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Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language that is quite different to the other Scandinavian Germanic languages. Finnish is closely related to Estonian, Karelian, Votic and Vepsian, and more remotedly to the Sámi languages.
During the medieval times, Finnish oral poetry flourished, but it was rarely written down. Well-known Finnish poems of medieval origin are Piispa Henrikin surmavirsi ("Lay of the Killing of Bishop Henry") and Elinan surma ("Death of Maiden Elina").
The New Testament was translated into Finnish during the 16th century, but until 1863 it was Swedish, not Finnish, that was the official language in Finland.
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