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- proper noun
Meänkieli , a language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden. It is a variant ofFinnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced bySwedish .
Etymologies
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From the “Torne”, the name of the river that separates Finland and Sweden in the north.
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