Editing Languages of the United States (section)

===Finnish===
[[File:Finnish USC2000 PHS.svg|thumb|Finnish language distribution in the United States.]]
The first Finnish settlers in America were amongst the settlers who came from Sweden and Finland to the [[New Sweden]] colony. Most colonists were Finnish. However, the Finnish language was not preserved as well among subsequent generations as Swedish.

Between the 1890s and the outbreak of the first World War, an estimated quarter million [[Finnish citizen]]s immigrated to the United States, mainly in rural areas of the [[Midwest]] and more specifically in the mining regions of Northeastern [[Minnesota]], Northern Wisconsin and [[Michigan]]'s [[Upper Peninsula]]. [[Hancock, Michigan]], as of 2005, still incorporates bi-lingual street signs written in both English and Finnish.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carlisle |first=John |title=Fortitude, tradition help Finns flourish in brutal U.P. |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2014/08/23/john-carlisle-fortitude-tradition-help-finns-flourish-in-brutal-up/14501869/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=[[Detroit Free Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Michigan HR0007 {{!}} 2017-2018 {{!}} 99th Legislature |url=https://legiscan.com/MI/text/HR0007/id/1456169 |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=LegiScan |language=en}}</ref> [[Finnish American|Americans of Finnish origin]] yield at 800,000 individuals, though only 26,000 speak the language at home. There is a distinctive dialect of English to be found in the Upper Peninsula, known as [[Yooper dialect|Yooper]]. Yooper often has a Finnish cadence and uses Finnish sentence structure with modified English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish vocabulary.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Notable Finnish Americans include U.S. Communist Party leader [[Gus Hall]], film director [[Renny Harlin]], and the Canadian-born actress [[Pamela Anderson]].

Northern Clark County, Washington (encompassing Yacolt, Amboy, Battle Ground and Chelatchie) contains a large exclave of [[Old Apostolic Lutheran Church|Old Apostolic Lutherans]] who originally immigrated from Finland. Many families in this portion of the county speak fluent Finnish at home before learning English.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} Another noteworthy Finnish community in the United States is found in [[Lake Worth Beach, Florida]], north of Miami.