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Institute for the Languages of Finland. Kotus is located at Hakaniemenkatu 2 in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. The Institute for the Languages of Finland, [a] better known as Kotus, is a governmental linguistic research institute of Finland geared to studies of Finnish, Swedish (cf. Finland Swedish ), the Sami languages, Romani language, and Finnish Sign ...
Finno-Ugric (/ ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k / or / ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ uː ɡ r ɪ k /) is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages.Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th century and is criticized by some contemporary linguists such as Tapani Salminen and Ante Aikio.
The unrounded open vowel transcribed in IPA with /ɑ/ has been variously described as near-open back [ ɑ̝] [3] and open central [ ɑ̈]. [5] Finnish has a phonological contrast between single ( /æ e i ø y ɑ o u/) and double ( /ææ ee ii øø yy ɑɑ oo uu/) vowels. [6] Phonetically long vowels are single continuous sounds ( [æː eː iː ...
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.
Simo Häyhä ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death ( Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized : Belaya smert’ ), was a Finnish military sniper in World War II during the 1939–1940 Winter War against the Soviet ...
Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish [1] ( Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) [2] is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 ...
