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Finnish is one of the three Finno-Ugric languages
02/27/2021, 07:23:21

    Peter2 writes:

    Its "relatives" are Estonian and – believe it or not – Hungarian!

    I think I read somewhere that JRR Tolkein in his Middle-Earth tales used Finnish as the basis for the high-elven language Quenya (and Welsh as the basis for the grey-elven tongue Sindarin). You can take this as another one, if you like!





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