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The finnish language
Does anybody know what the origin of the finnish language is?
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| 23655 |
Re:The finnish language
I believe it's origin is Latin. But I'm not 100% on that.
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Re:The finnish language
Hi! it's no from Latin (!). Latin comes from indoeuropean languages and finnish doesn't. With Hungarian and Basque, these are the only 3 no-indoeurpean languages in Europe.
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Re:The finnish language
Finnish acutally belongs to the Finno-Ugric family of languages which also includes Estonian and Hungarian. Nearly every other language spoken in Europe belongs to the Indo-European family of languages which include: Germanic (including all of the other Scandinavian languages), Romance, Slavic, Celtic, and even East Indian languages among others.
Hope this is helpful!
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Re:Re:The finnish language
Thanks,Nicole.
That means that if it had a latin root, it would be basically indoeuropean.But still, is there any possibility of it having some kind of connetion with the eskimo language?
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Re:Re:The finnish language
Thank you both for your contribution.I've been doing some reading and it's definitely non-indoeuropean.I haven't been able to get the actual root, though. So if ther's anybody who can enlighten me on the subject, you're welcome.
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Re:The finnish language
Hello from Finland!
Finnish language, also called Suomi, member
of the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric
languages. These languages form a subdivision
of the Uralic subfamily of the
Ural-Altaic family of languages.
I don't understand a word of Hungarian but
Estonian sounds very familiar.
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Re:Re:The finnish language
Thanks a million Hellen , this has been very useful!
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Re:The finnish language
The origin of Finnish language is Fino-ugric(their ancestors lived in Ural montains).It is related to hungarian.
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