Finnish phrasebook Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
About Finnish phrasebook
Finnish is aFinno-Ugric languageand hence completely unrelated to most other languages. In particular, Finnish has grammatically nothing at all in common with the Nordic languages, English or Russian. Although there are many old loan words especially fromSwedishbut also from other European languages, they are not necessarily recognizable due to the very different phonology. The use of modern neologisms instead of borrowing is common, but there may be a less used loan word in addition to the neologism: a polygon may be calledpolygoni, although the common word ismonikulmio(a direct translation from the Greek). The origin of Finnish and its relatives traces back over 5000 years to nomadic peoples of the Ural mountains in Russia who migrated westward. The details of the migration and the relat
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