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2 days ago · The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers), Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers above 100,000 are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt and Komi spoken in the European parts of the Russian Federation.
2 days ago · The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity and the intensification of Finland's language strife that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.
3 days ago · Meanwhile, Mikhail Lomonosov compared different language groups, including Slavic, Baltic ("Kurlandic"), Iranian ("Medic"), Finnish, Chinese, "Hottentot" , and others, noting that related languages (including Latin, Greek, German, and Russian) must have separated in antiquity from common ancestors.
1 day ago · Not really, but somehow it sounds like "old" language. Reminds me that I came across this video of Finno-uralic people living in Siberia who speak their own version of Finnish, and it's understandable for the Finnish speaker for most part, but something about how they structured the sentences was odd and sounded somehow like "old Finnish".
3 days ago · Various languages unrelated to Old Norse and others not closely related have been heavily influenced by Norse, particularly the Norman language; to a lesser extent, Finnish and Estonian. Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian and Latvian also have a few Norse loanwords.
5 days ago · Table. This table lists all of two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage , and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Modern Hebrew.
The term Finnish-Swedish (Swedish: finlandssvensk (a), Finnish: suomenruotsalainen [a]) could refer to: The Swedish-speaking population of Finland, see Swedish-speaking Finns. The dialect of the Swedish language spoken by them, see Finland Swedish. Anything binational that involves both Finland and Sweden, see Category:Finland–Sweden relations.
