I am half-Finnish through my mother and peo­ple often ask me whether the lan­guage is related to Scan­di­na­vian lan­guages or to Russ­ian. The answer is … Finnish is related to Hun­gar­ian and Eston­ian. This link to Wikipedia pro­vides “every­thing you wanted to know but were afraid to ask”  about Finnish:

The Finno-Ugric lan­guages form a sub­fam­ily of the Uralic lan­guages. The major­ity of lin­guists believe that Finnish, Hun­gar­ian and Eston­ian, among other lan­guages, should be included in the group. Unlike most of the other lan­guages spo­ken in Europe, the Finno-Ugric lan­guages are not part of the Indo-European fam­ily of lan­guages .… Many of the smaller Finno-Ugric lan­guages are endan­gered and near extinction.

And that’s most prob­a­bly why most Finns speak many lan­guages … no one speaks theirs!