2007-04-29 02:19:19 · 5 answers · asked by Claudio 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Finnish language belongs to the Uralic languages, to their Baltic-Fennic group. There are about 30 uralic languages spoken on both sides of Uralic mountains, only Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish are state languages, others are minority languages. Hungarian and Finnish are very remotely related , Estonian and Finnish much closer. The basic/archaic Uralic languages are thought to have started to separate from each other 5000 to 7000 years B.C.
Uralic languages are remotely related to Indo-european languages. It is thought that the people speaking Finnish came from east at least from the bend of Volga -now central Russia already more than 2000 years ago.
Finnish language -like any other language -has been influenced by all the other languages the people came in contact with. Pronounced similarly to Latin and Italian and Spanish and having some similarities with Japanese (although not in writing) makes learning these languages a bit easier for Finns, in other aspects it is tedious to have a mother tongue that is sooo different from the neighbors'.
Even English is closer to Russian than Finnish!
2007-04-29 17:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by marya 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Finland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language
2007-04-29 09:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most common theory is that finnish language comes from Hungrian language.
2007-04-29 10:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by martox45 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uralian
2007-04-29 09:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by Constant Reader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT'S FROM FINLAND!!!
2007-04-29 09:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by john 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋