Helsinki slang or stadin slangi ("Helsinki's slang", from Swedish stad, "city"see etymology) is a local dialect, a sociolect and a variation of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital Helsinki. It is characterized by its abundance of foreign loan words not found in the other Finnish dialects.
Helsinki slang first evolved in the late 19th century as a sociolect of the multilingual Helsinki working class communities, where Swedish and Finni...
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Helsinki slang or stadin slangi ("Helsinki's slang", from Swedish stad, "city"see etymology) is a local dialect, a sociolect and a variation of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital Helsinki. It is characterized by its abundance of foreign loan words not found in the other Finnish dialects.
Helsinki slang first evolved in the late 19th century as a sociolect of the multilingual Helsinki working class communities, where Swedish and Finnish speaking youth lived together with Russian, German and various other language minorities.
Grammatically Helsinki slang is based on colloquial Finnish. It is characterized by a large number of words borrowed from originally Swedish, German and Russian – and nowadays chiefly English – vocabularies, replacing common everyday nouns, verbs and adjectives with loanwords, that are inflected according to the grammatical rules of spoken Finnish.
The language's history can be divided into the old slang (vanha slangi) and the new or modern slang (uusi...
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