Finsk

Finsk is a term used in several Nordic languages to refer to Finland, the Finnish language, or the Finnish people. It functions primarily as an adjective.

In Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, finsk is the standard adjective for anything related to Finland, including culture, institutions, and language; the exact noun form denoting a person from Finland varies by language.

The Finnish language, known autonymously as suomi, is not an Indo-European language but is part of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. It is characterized by agglutinative morphology, an extensive case system, vowel harmony, and a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics such as ä and ö.

Finnish is the majority language of Finland, where it is co-official with Swedish; it is also spoken by Finnish communities in Sweden and other countries as a minority language. There are several million speakers worldwide.

Finsk, then, denotes not only the country but its language and culture in many Nordic contexts, illustrating how a single term can cross linguistic boundaries while pointing to related yet distinct meanings.