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
Languages of Finland The Swedish dialects spoken in Finland mainland are known as Finland-Swedish. There is a rich Finland-Swedish literature, including authors such as Tove Jansson, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Edith Södergran and Zacharias Topelius. Runeberg is considered Finland's national poet and wrote the national anthem, "Vårt land", which was only later translated to Finnish. The Sami languages are a group of related languages spoken across Lapland. They are distantly related to Finnish. The three Sami languages spoken in Finland, Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, have a combined native speaker population of roughly 1,800. Up to World War II, Karelian was spoken