You know more Finnish than you think

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You know more Finnish than you think

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You Know More Finnish Than You Think

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Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…

Interesting short text about the history of Finnish, focusing mostly on its interaction with nearby Germanic languages.

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