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The terms Finns and Finnish people ((フィンランド語:suomalaiset), (スウェーデン語:finnar)) may refer in English to ethnic Finns, not including other ethnic groups in Finland, such as Finland Swedes and Russians in Finland.〔"Finn noun" ''The Oxford Dictionary of English'' (revised edition). Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Tampere University of Technology. 3 August 2007 ()〕 In contrast to this definition, the term Finns may also refer to all inhabitants of Finland, regardless of their ethnic affiliation, i.e. also Somalis in Finland. This article is about ethnic Finns. For other ethnic groups living in Finland, please refer to Demographics of Finland. The group ethnic Finns includes smaller groups in several countries, some of which are native to these countries and some which have immigrated there. The groups that are native to their countries include the Baltic Finns of Finland and smaller native populations in neighboring countries include the Kvens in Norway, the Tornedalians of Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns of Russia. The groups that have immigrated to their respective countries include the Finnish-speaking population of Sweden and groups in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia. Finnish, the language spoken by most Baltic Finns, is closely related to other Finnic languages, e.g. Estonian and Karelian. The Finnic languages are a subgroup to the Uralic family of languages, which also includes Hungarian. These languages are markedly different from most other languages spoken in Europe, which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Native Finns can be divided according to dialect into subgroups sometimes called ''heimo'' (lit. ''tribe''), although such divisions have become less important due to internal migration. ==Subgroups== The Population Register Centre maintains information on the birthplace, citizenship and mother tongue of the people living in Finland, but does not specifically categorize any as Finns by ethnicity.〔(Annual population statistics of Finland ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「finns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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