Finnish belongs to Finland - Ugric languages, outside the former Soviet Union the world's only three Finland - Ugric language belongs to the Department, they are Finnish, Hungarian and Northern Scandinavia region of the Lapland dialect.
The closest relatives and the Finnish language is the language of Estonia, Karelian, VEPs (Veps), Lv Deyu (Lude), Voight (Vote) and Livonian (Livonian). These languages are used in the southern and eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland. The Finnish Estonia language and the most widely used, vocabulary and grammar are close to. After a short period of contact, Finns and Estonia people can understand each other's language. The Finnish and Hungarian far relationship, their relatives also can only be determined according to the background of diachronic linguistics. In general, Finnish and Hungarian distance, like German and Persian as far.
The use of Finnish about six million people, mainly in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Russia, there are some immigrants in the United States as the everyday language, mainly live in michigan.
As Finnish does not belong to the Indo European language family, making it the basic vocabulary is completely different from the Indo European languages. But from the Swedish and Finnish in Russian to take this a lot.