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I found some interesting Finnish words at http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/Go.finSanaleikit : 12 consecutive vowel letters: riiuuyöaieoionta 'courting night intention rectification' 11 consecutive double letters: kookkaammuussyytteellään 'his/her/its accusation of being bigger (adessive)' 7 consecutive d...

Finnish: jäädä = to stay; to leave.

Burana (the drug) is called /turAnA/ in some Finnish dialects.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroneme : Estonian and Sami also have a three-way [length] distinction in consonants, e.g. lina "bed sheet", linna (half-long 'n') "of the city", linna (over-long 'n') "to the city". Estonian, in which the phonemic opposition is the strongest, uses tonal contour as...

I made a map of the Finnish names of the cities and municipalities in southern Finland. Red: consists of front vowels (takes endings like -ssä/-llä). Green: consists of back vowels (takes endings like -ssa/-lla). (If the name was a compound, I only looked at the last word.) The distribution isn't en...

I have noticed that there are many loanwords from natural languages, but I think it is more interesting to find similarities to natural languages that Zompist has not admitted to have used as a source. Finnish/Uyse? words: (U = meaning in Uyse?, F = meaning in Finnish) hinkin (U: consequence, infere...

Cadhinor words that look like Finnish words: ("C" = meaning in Cadhinor, "F" = meaning in Finnish) asia (C: sitting, session, F: thing, matter, issue) kili (C: mountain (Kaino dialect), F: goatling) konna (C: money, F: crook, toad) kudos (C: hole, F: fabric, tissue) lannos (C: flax, F: fertilizer (?...

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Here are some sound changes that have occurred in Finnish. Long close-mid vowels have become diphthongs: /o:/ to /uo/ /2:/ to /y2/ /e:/ to /ie/ In some dialects, they have shifted further to /uA/, /y{/ and /i{/ or /iA/ (depending on front-back vowel harmony: /tieto/ to /tiAto/ but /tiet{/ to /ti{t{/...

Here are some Verdurian words that look like Finnish words. The meanings are the same in both languages. Verdurian word 'meaning' - Finnish word [Finnish pronunciation]: tyurma 'prison' - tyrm? ["tyr.m{] v?reca 'danger' - vaara ["vA:.rA] bol? 'much' - paljon ["pAl.jon] dhash 'pocket' - tasku ["tAs.k...