The Finnish language is very interesting. It is the first time I have hard such language, and it is unlike any other language. When you listen to Finns talkin to each other, it seems as if every word is similar to the last. Almost every word ends in IT (Kebabit, pomfrit…).
Finnish is the language of some 5 million people in Finland, where it became the official language in 1809 and of the Finnish minorities in Russia and Sweden. Until the 19th century, Swedish was the official language in Finland, as well as the spoken language of the upper classes. The first printed work in Finnish was a translation of the New Testament in the 16th century. The movement to establish Finnish was particularly strong in the 19th century. In¸1833, Elias Lonnrot wrote the Kalevala, Finlands most famous epic in 12,000 verses, which has existed in the form of folk songs in the oral tradition of many generations. Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland and means “land of heroes”.
Finnish surnames are also spelled similarly in EN at the end (Purhonen, Artonen…).
In Finland, you can immediately recognise a Russian because they have the abbreviation OV at the end of their surname (Ahmanov, Anisov, Bajkov…).
The Finns hate the Rissians very much, because of the war between them 60 years ago. The Finns win the war.
The Finnish language is very interesting to me because I dont understand any of it and, on the one hand, its a bit funny.
