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+# Finnish
+
+(Doc started by AR 2019-01-03 and is still just a stub)
+
+## Language info
+
+- English name: Finnish
+- Autonym: Suomi
+- ISO code: Fin
+
+## Authors
+
+Mainly written by Aarne Ranta starting in 2002
+With contributions by Inari Listenmaa, ...
+
+## Publications
+
+- Grégoire Détrez and Aarne Ranta, Smart Paradigms, EACL 2012
+
+## Implementation information
+
+### Morphology
+
+This module includes one of the first uses of smart paradigms.
+But it was mainly implemented before GF supported regular expression
+matching, so that the suffixing functions dp and tk are in heavy use.
+
+
+## Known issues
+
+The object case in passives may come out wrong.
+
+
+## Supplementary files
+
+KOTUS wordlist
+
+stemmed/ directory to minimize the size of inflection tables
+
+
+## Applications
+
+This grammar has been thoroughly tested in applications.
+Examples include
+- MOLTO phrasebook
+- MathBar
+- GF Wide-Coverage translator
+- FinWordnet lexicon
+
+Commercial applications:
+- Digital Grammars Health (Ambulance and Obstetrics)
+- Tillgänglighetsdatabasen
+- InLife communication support
+- Textual's product information
+
+
+