Sniff (Moomin character) the character only occasionally after the first books. In the TV series Sniff has been added to many of Jansson's stories where he did not originally feature. Sniff (Moomin character) Sniff () is a character in the Moomin stories created by Tove Jansson. His debut is in the first Moomin-book "The Moomins and the Great Flood". In addition to books he is also a prominent character in the Moomin comics and animations. The parents of Sniff are The Muddler ("Rådd-djuret") and Fuzzy ("Sås-djuret"), childhood friends of Moominpappa. Sniff is considered as a sort of an adopted child of the Moomin
Swedish-speaking population of Finland and Finnish-speakers are nowadays very common. According to a study commissioned by the Swedish Assembly of Finland in 2005, 48.5% of all families with children where at least one of the parents was Swedish-speaking were bilingual in the sense of one parent being Swedish- and the other Finnish-speaking (only families living in those municipalities where Swedish was at least a co-official language were included in this study). 67.7% of the children from these bilingual families were registered as Swedish-speaking. The proportion of those who attended schools where Swedish was the language of instruction was even higher. The Finnish authorities classify