• TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I thought Finnish might be a Germanic language but apparently it's Uralic.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah Finnish couldn't possibly be so related to English. Have you ever seen or heard any Finnish? It's like alien speech. Absolutely uncanny.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I knew Danish was a Germanic language and my mind kind of lumped all of Scandinavia together.

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Both Sweden and Norway were under Danish rule for a good while, so that's why those three have very similar languages today.

          As far as I know, Norwegians and Swedes used to speak a language that was very much like what is spoken in Iceland today.

      • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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        3 years ago

        Shares some weird elements with Hungarian apparently, but perhaps by coincidence more than anything.

        • hart [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          sorry for responding to such an old comment but they have similarities because both are a part of the finno-ugric language family