He translated the New Testament into Finnish, which was the first printed work in Finnish.
In doing so he also had to invent many Finnish equivalents of words from latin and in this way he helped develop the Finnish language.
He was the principal of the Cathedral School in Turku Finland, and wrote the ABC-kirja (ABC-book), from which the spelling of the Finnish language developed.
Adam Christian Agricola was born in 1593.
Mikael Agricola died on 1557-04-09.
Finnish was first written down in the early 16th century. The earliest known written example of Finnish is from 1543, found in the form of a translation of the New Testament by Mikael Agricola, who is often regarded as the father of written Finnish. His work laid the foundation for the development of the Finnish language in written form.
The Finnish language is suomi (Finnish) or suomen kieli (Finnish language) in Finnish.
Language is kieli in Finnish.
Finnish; the language of Finland. 'Suomi' is the Finnish name for the Finnish language.
"Kiitos" is a word in the Finnish language, and it means "thank you."
Olli Nuutinen has written: 'Sano minun sanoneen' -- subject(s): Conversation and phrase books, Swedish, Swedish language, Finnish language, Finnish 'Hetkisen pituus' -- subject(s): Finnish language, Language and languages 'Finnish in Finnish'
Aino Wuolle has written: 'English Finnish (englantilais-suomalainen) Dictionary' 'Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Finnish language, English 'Suomalais-englantilainen opiskelusanakirja' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Finnish language, English 'Suomalais-Englantilais-Suomalainen Sanakirja' 'Finnish-English dictionary' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Finnish language, English, English language, Finnish 'Finnish-English/English-Finnish Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise)' 'Suomi englanti suomi' -- subject(s): English language, Dictionaries, Finnish language, Finnish, English 'Suomalais-englantilainen koulusanakirja' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Finnish language, English
The language is Finnish, a person from Finland is called a Finn.
Finland's main language is Finnish. The second official language is Swedish.
It's language :D