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Finnicization (also finnicisation,
fennicization, fennicisation) is the
changing of one's
personal names from
other languages (usually Swedish) into Finnish...
- the 21st century, native-Swedish
speakers are a
minority of 5.9%. "Helsinki Po****tion 2021 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)".
Fennicization v t e v t e...
- less
direct translations of
Swedish names (****eranta < Hällstrand).
Fennicizing one's name also
concealed non-Finnish origin. For example,
Martti Ahtisaari's...
- A set of
graves in Tampere,
showing the
original surname "Kyander" as well as the
fennicized "Kiianmies"...
- and was
later ennobled.
These Finnish Swedes,
known as the Fennomans,
Fennicized their family names,
learned Finnish, and made a
point of
using Finnish...
-
overall modernization process, and
especially the
political movement of
fennicization,
caused a
movement for
adoption of
Finnish surnames. At that time, many...
- The
Finnish military administration in
Eastern Karelia was an
interim administrative system established in
those areas of the Karelo-Finnish
Soviet Socialist...
- needed] At the
start of her
career she took the name "Phat Zik",
which was
fennicized as "Kana" when she
started rapping in Finnish. Her real name
comes from...
- administration. Many
influential Swedish-speaking
families learned Finnish,
fennicized their names and
changed their everyday language to Finnish. This linguistic...
- of the
Nobel Committee for
Physics Frans Hjalmar Nordling (1890–1931),
Fennicized as Nortamo,
Finnish writer and
doctor Jeffrey Nordling (b. 1962), American...
