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Finnish, a Uralian language with nothing in common with Swedish — Estonian (q.v.) is its closest relation — is now the vernacular of nine-tenths of the population of Finland. Modern Finnish literature proper dates from 1880: the Young Finland (‘N uori Suomi’) movement.
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Seymour-Smith, M. (1985). Finnish Literature. In: Guide to Modern World Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06418-2_13
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