Introduction to the Finnish Language

Where is Finnish spoken? Where did it come from? What does it look and sound like?
This video presents the Finnish language and gives a brief overview of its geographical distribution, history, writing system, linguistic relationships, grammar and sound.
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[@peikko3304]

I'm finnish, why am I watching this

[@herobroilerii]

Koska sä haluat ehkä alitajuntaisesti tietää, onko tässä videossa virheitä. Ite ainakin tulin kattoo tätä virheitten ja tylsyyden takia :D

[@jaffajoffer6300]

Koska mitä meistä puhutaan sekä suosituksissa..

[@entiia3052]

Koska voit flexaa sil et osaat nää asiat jo

[@rapu7820]

Koska voit

[@eerojaakkola]

@@herobroilerii sama

[@finnsalsa9304]

Holy ö! I've never ever heard a foreinger pronouncing Finnish this well! You seriously sounded almost like a native person.

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you for the compliment! :) (though mostly pronouncing one word at a time helps!)

[@Thekellin1]

How did you train this good accent?

[@citadelofwinds1564]

"Holy ö!" That is so so funny. Especially given that in Finnish, ö is a very rare breed, while ä accounts for about 5% of the letters in usage statistics. So I would indeed hold ö as a rare and precious little thing to be treated with reverence. :)

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

Holy Island?

[@nikoahonen7048]

I have to agree, that was very close! And when I say very close, it sounded nearly pefect. I can tell because I am a native speaker.

[@sarahgray430]

Finnish is an incredibly beautiful language, but I can tell why it's considered one of the hardest languages to learn.

[@TheZebinatorofficial]

Because it has very few family languages, while in the rest of Europe basically all languages are germanic plus latin, so if you understand Swedish, you can read Danish and Norwegian without any problem (pronounciation is different obviously). I know Danish, Swedish and English and I can guess myself through german, dutch, swiss, french and most of the west European languages, the further south it gets it's harder but you can usually understand enough to get the basic message. Finnish however? Hah good luck dude, as a native Swedish speaker I look at Finnish like it's chinese with latin characters :P

[@sampokemppainen3041]

It is because there's no global interest in teaching it. It's quite basic and not so hard to learn.

[@luuttaja]

@@sampokemppainen3041 It is hard. Just not for us finns as we start learning it right away when we get born

[@krush59]

As a european it's more or less easy to get into the most other european languages- at least some basics. You just need some vocabulary and know some grammar stuff to form sentences und then you can move on from there. In Finnish, even with a huge vocabulary knowledge it's still hard to form correct sentences if you are not familiar with all the cases etc.

[@herramirtsaaja9032]

@@krush59 I allways thought it was the other way around and still do unless I understood what you meant wrong because finnish has a good stone for rules unlike english is a mess. Why when you have the vowels why dont they allways stay the same vowels for example the words dont and you the o in there doesnt work the same way its supposed to wtf. And then y is supposed to not be a vowel what about the word dynamite its now the same as a for some reason

[@cesilias2419]

Suomi gäng 👇🏻

[@FrozenPanzer]

Suomi perkele

[@VonSergei]

torilla

[@truemize2167]

Voi vittu

[@sm45783]

SUOMI

[@turk7290]

Missä vitussa mun kalja on nyt saatana lol

[@osmark86]

Swede here. Finnish is such a cool language. Cheers to my brothers and sisters across the pond!

[@timothykarlsson3126]

Swede here to support our Finnish cousins, cheers!

[@bigwoke8747]

Kippis

[@legogonkdroid3792]

Jeh jeh you realy suppertonesus

[@samitissari3268]

Btw why we finnish People have to learn swedish but swedes dont

[@legogonkdroid3792]

"No koska suomen vientituotteista 20% menee ruotsiin'' t:mun porukat

[@timothykarlsson3126]

@@samitissari3268 Probably because Finland used to be a part of Sweden :P

[@vikarhu3372]

This dude speaks extraordinarily fluid finnish.

[@rzeka]

I love the Finnish language so much. I love the way it sounds, and I love the way the grammar works.

[@Oupii313]

i shall help you to learn it if you need help

[@Kapoor_Kshatriye]

I want to learn Finnish too!

[@Oupii313]

Bhuvnesh Kapoor sure, happy to help

[@Kapoor_Kshatriye]

MrLepola Good. From where should we start !

[@Kapoor_Kshatriye]

My user id- bhuvneshbhanukapoor

[@usvakiuru2]

Finally a video that has doesn’t just have someone absolutely butchering these words.

[@Frahamen]

I started to Learn Suomen Kieli. But I coudn't Finnish...

[@ayeepatricia7967]

😂

[@SocialistFinn1]

sad story lol

[@meri-tuuli]

suomen kieli*

[@baato870]

Meri Kurvinen, Suomen kieli*

[@oce6292]

@@baato870 suomen kieli*

[@mikrokupu]

Great introduction, thanks! I'm a native Finnish speaker and it still shows when I speak English. It's like my brains has problems separating genders in speak, I easily mix he/she

[@Alvarnea]

When I'm speaking and not really focusing on either my pronounciation nor my sentences in any way (basically returning to rally english and rolling my r's and being generally really lazy with everything), I easily say he when I meant to say she. I think it's just because my mouth is being lazy and saying 'she' is just a tiiiny bit more work. XD

[@jojoUK120]

Alvarnea Oh you don’t need to stop rolling r - just pretend you’re Scottish 😉

[@suaptoest]

@@jojoUK120 I'm training to speak like Billy Connolly. His Glasgow accent is brilliant. We have a dialect with a somewhat similar intonation.

[@Quadronnn]

Sorry for replying to such an ancient comment, but I thought it was fitting how you referred to your "brains" immediately after mentioning how your Finnish shows when speaking English. For those not in the know, the Finnish word for "brain" is, of course, "aivot", making it plural, so that's probably a pretty common mistake for a Finnish speaker to make when speaking English. It's important for us Finns to remember that, unlike us, the poor English-speakers only have one brain.

[@hugeturd42]

@@Alvarnea sama täällä

[@tilliperuna]

Now that's how you do an introduction! In my opinion, as a Finn and a language enthusiast, you covered much if not all the necessary basics to understanding the Finnish language. I will definitely share this video to people that are interested in Finnish , keep up the good work! Edit: Subscribed.

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you very much! I definitely intend to!

[@halvanhelev]

I agree, this was a great video. Even as a Finn I think I learned a little bit more :P

[@SleepingGroke]

Kääk! Qmmitus! :D

[@Darkenedbyshadows]

How is your pronunciation so good?! Are you also Finnish? Greetings from Finland!!!

[@AcademiaCervena]

No, I'm Swedish! Thank you for the complement :) I'd say my pronunciation is the result of listening and practicing, mostly! It helps that you can hear a fair bit of Finnish in Sweden, but of course I've done my share of studying too!

[@timomastosalo]

I heard some little foreign effect in a few words, like lattia, where you exaggerted the darkness, backness of the a vowels. But, I didn't guess you were Swedish, so good job in fading your native accent! :)

[@Achilles94627]

@@AcademiaCervena Your English is pretty decent as well… ;)

[@DieFlabbergast]

@@timomastosalo I didn't guess he was Swedish: I honestly thought he was an American (I'm British, btw).

[@timomastosalo]

@@DieFlabbergast we're neighbouring countries, like she pointed out that a swede can hear a lot of Finnish even their home country. We Finns hear 2 type of Swedish: the one spoken in Finland, and the one in Sweden. The difference is roughly like that between US and UK English.

[@4N9vxO3WnK]

Me as a finnish speaker, learnt something new. I never knew about the vocal groups! Very well made video

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you! I'm happy to hear it! Isn't it a great feeling when you suddenly realize something about how your native language works?

[@timomastosalo]

nnovl You did know, but only intuitively, not consciously. You have been usin them all the time :) But a language learner needs this advice to get into the language.

[@prolainen8997]

i thought this is taught in middle school

[@TheJere213]

@@prolainen8997 I don't remember if it was taught in middle school but high school at least. Might have been in middle school too

[@prolainen8997]

@@TheJere213 i learnt this in 5th grade

[@code8239]

wow... somebody did their research :D Usually this kind of videos make me facepalm but this is perfect one! For a moment I thought u were finn aswell until you tried pronounce finnish words (I have never heard foreing doing it so well 10 internet point's for u) Just wondering, do you know why non-finns calls Karjala as Karelia? Too hard to pronounce?

[@AcademiaCervena]

Kiitos paljon! :) I'm glad you liked it! My Finnish pronunciation is still a work in progress, but it's good to hear that it's doing a good job! As for Karelia, I can't say for certain, but my educated guess would be that the _Karel-_ part comes from how the Swedes and/or Russians interpreted the name (cf. Swedish _Karelen_), and then you have the Latin country suffix _-ia_, which is where English got it from.

[@code8239]

well... that would explain it. btw, "Suomi mainittu" is kind of meme in Finland(you probably knew it already) and that makes me wonder what makes Finland intresting? What I mean is that after Nokia died, there is really nothing we can provide, except engineers. Probably the only country in the world overflown by them. Germany is famous of their tech and cars, France is fueled by fashion and so on.... I really can't figure out why people would like to study finnish or even think to live here. I can't see any benefit about us. (government is flushing this country down to sewer anyway, so non-existing healthcare is only matter of time)

[@AcademiaCervena]

Well, you don't need an industry to be interesting :) Finland and the Nordic countries have high standards of living, low corruption, and a lot of nature and open space. Such things are enough to captivate a lot of people! Also, many people just love languages without caring where they come from. Since Finnish is quite different from most Western European languages, that's enough to make it interesting to a lot of language enthusiasts as well.

[@sampokemppainen3041]

I want to know what things in other videos made you facepalm.

[@nikoahonen7048]

I think it's just the English word for Karjala...

[@josedelsud]

As a Spanish native speaker son of Polish parents and language enthusiast, you got a new subscriber. I have a couple of Finnish friends and we communicate in English. Spanish and Finnish has nothing in common but it's not too hard to pronounce for me, main differences are Y, J, H and the "extra" wovels, the rest sounds like Spanish. Kiitos paljon! 👍❤️

[@gJonii]

I've known some Spanish speakers, it's uncanny how easy pronouncing Finnish comes to them.

[@Hairysteed]

The distinction between short and long sounds seems to be one of the hardest things to learn in Finnish language. tule - come (imperative) tulee - comes tullee - probably comes tuule - (wind) blow (imperative) tuulee - the wind is blowing tuullee - the wind is probably blowing

[@Stripedbottom]

Actually, finnish and spanish do have one big thing in common, and you just described it: There is very little difference in the written and pronounced forms of the language. Each letter and combination of letter is typically pronounced the same no matter where or how it appears, and each letter is also typically pronounced very precisely and distinctively. If a spanish speaker speaks slowly and methodically, I can write down pretty much exactly what they said without having a clue about what it means. Once I learn the few exceptions (J sounds like H, double L as J etc.) I have no problem with those either. No hope in hell to do the same with a french speaker, for example. This is actually a pretty massive advantage for a finnish speaker trying to learn spanish compared to many other indo-european languages, and is also why many finnish speakers like the spanish language and the sound of it - it sounds clear, precise and no-nonsense :)

[@iapologizeformyselfishbeha4889]

Oh hey. I've been learning a little spanish and i'm finnish. Hola, encantada. Que tal? I know basic greetings and introductions. And some other stuff too. Like counting from uno to diez.

[@JohnJohnson-fo5vl]

Very fascinating video, well researched, compact and evenly interesting from the start to the end, that's how you do a video.

[@VJEManninen]

I usually avoid commenting, but I must say: this was a stellar performance. I'm a Finn myself, and this video taught me some things I was not aware of, and it was able to articulate many things I knew but would not have been able to put forth so clearly. Thanks a bunch - hope many others will see and enjoy this!

[@AcademiaCervena]

Very happy to be able to contribute in this way! There are often so many things to discover in how your own native language functions!

[@citadelofwinds1564]

Indeed. So many points of grammar are not covered at school because it's taken for granted that "everyone knows them". These are often the very quirks that differentiate that language from other languages. Learning another language really makes one understand and appreciate one's native language better.

[@MrZarewna]

Absolutely fantastic video. So well explained and pronounced. I'm amazed.

[@lesalmin]

The best short introduction to finnish I have seen.

[@keaseball]

I love the Finnish language and would love to travel to Finland one day! Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🇫🇮☺️

[@cayenigma]

I am a native speaker of Finnish, and even I learnt something new. Apparently it was pointless to teach these vowel groups to us back at school, lol

[@citadelofwinds1564]

Indeed. When people learn a language from birth, everything is taken for granted and as natural, so it's mostly language teachers who stop and think about all the ins and outs of a language, including all the quirks that differentiate it from other languages. And of course, JRR Tolkien, who is a special case all of his own, and might hold the record for the number of in-depth conlangs (constructed languages) he created. BTW, Tolkien was fascinated by the Kalevala epic of Finland, and this inspired some of his LOTR storylines.

[@rudde7918]

Vokaalisointu kyllä opetetaan yläasteella.

[@meri-tuuli]

Niitä opetellaa ala ja yläasteella

[@annateacheraustralia9868]

Thank you for the introduction! Kiitos! 👍

[@akselitohjonen2064]

Thank you Academia Cervena for this excellent introduction to the wonder that is the Finnish language. There are not many a youtube video, where the basic structure of the language is explained this easily and comprehensibly. I will recommend this video to anyone who shows some interest in the language. Well done, well done indeed!

[@shahadmoeen1290]

finally ! another great video, thank you for your efforts, you are doing a great job ! .

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you! :)

[@unknown_finnish4001]

+Academia Cervena I am from finland!

[@kube129]

Henxi Airsoft me too

[@guloguloguy]

.....IMHO: THIS NARRATOR'S COMMAND OF THE PRONUNCIATION, OF SO MANY OF THESE LANGUAGES, IN THESE VIDEOS, IS EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE, AND INSPIRING!!!!! "BRAVO!!!!!" THE HIGHEST RESPECT TO YOU, SIR!!!!

[@takoja507]

That was very nice video and informatitive about the history of our languages also. Thank you :)

[@tomasmogos6239]

I'm happy with your lesson program!

[@TheAsoPeso]

As a Finn I was very surprised about all this information in 10 minutes. I even learned something new myself! Very comprehensive and well presented video, full 10 points!

[@regdenee]

You should make more of these! I'm currently studying Finnish and this video really helped me out!

[@AcademiaCervena]

I will :) Both new language intros and Finnish videos are in the works!

[@asnek2527]

Suomi pekrele kossu kalja makkarakeitto karjalanpiirakka mee töihi joo this makes no sense what i am writing

[@aaebsssb9914]

Terve. Suomi on hyvä kieli

[@arttu.rajala]

Miksi vitussa

[@fukayyy2447]

Easy to understand! I want to watch more videos of Finnish! I'm looking forward to new videos.

[@arthurmorgan384]

Usually these kind of videos are trash but you have suprised me. Subcribed ❤

[@citadelofwinds1564]

This was a great, not overly daunting intro to Finnish, showing both the familiar features (loanwords from Germanic) and the unusual features of the language. The book excerpt at the end really provided a taste of the "flavour" of Finnish. I've had a lifelong interest in languages and linguistics, and can say that this and the other intro video I've watched are among the very best I've come across, particularly in the clarity of the grammar explanations. I've never before come across the detailed colour coding, and that truly helps to visually find - and importantly to better remember - the key points. Perhaps the only issue is that the red may be too dark against the black background, and would cause trouble for colourblind people. Red, green, blue and violet would be most troublesome. Orange, yellow, pink, light blue and light green would be most legible against the black. So, thanks for preparing this material and keep making more videos.

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you for your kind words! Your comment shows that the video has come across just as I hoped it would :) I've tried to adapt the colors better in my newer videos, especially using slightly brighter tones of red. It's one of those things that I honestly didn't even think about at first, so it's good that people pointed it out to me! More content is always in the works!

[@OnumLCT]

What the hell man are you a Uralic speaker in disguise? Your pronunciation sounds so native

[@aaebsssb9914]

It sounds about 75% accurate

[@nika-bx2gl]

Poopoo

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

If you are native it doesn’t speak native but it’s a good effort!

[@bg3622]

Pretty sure it's easier for speakers of phonetic languages to pronounce other words. As a Turkish person I was told by my internet Fin that I was pronouncing Finnish words "better than expected".

[@JosueLopez-kk9us]

@@bg3622 I hope that holds true for me as well, I speak spanish as a my NL

[@naakatube]

Great your channel should be more famous!

[@lezswing]

Loistava video, kiitos!!

[@elcuajinais6399]

I´m Mexican and maaaaaan, we talk in so different accents and sub languages but the pronuntiation of finnish, DAAAAAAAAAMN they are masters of lyrics. I really want learn finnish, if someone here need help with Latin Spanish, Argentinian, Chilean, Mexican from north, Mexican from South, Colombian, etc, i can give you a hand if you teach me a little bit of this beautiful language (Suomi). Greetings from Monterrey Mx. ñ.ñ

[@NinaNooneknows]

Great pronunciation there! At first I thought you were just saying the words awkwardly (mic shyness or something, I get that), and I still wasn't sure if you were a native or not until I read your comment! Hyvää työtä. c:

[@tqooaez961]

Wow, this was informative! good job!

[@AcademiaCervena]

Kiitos!

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great presentation...thanx!

[@jeresalonen7643]

Wow! As a native speaker of finnish, I find this very informational as a introduction to the mechaniscs of the finnish language for foreigners! Good job!! 😎👍🏻

[@sdfdsv]

It sounds so lovely

[@fedi1335]

@@poplar6658 suomen kieli pähkinänkuoressa

[@jesusmartinez-jimenez557]

Norsun kyrpä

[@craftah]

It sounds so weird

[@fokkktor]

Awww... Thanks

[@noth606]

Your pronunciation is excellent, that's impressive.

[@Wowtikkala]

Well studied mister! Your pronounciation is muito bom! I'm currently studying brazilian portuguese, and it's interesting to see educational materials like this of my native language. Hyvin tehty!

[@dargon881]

Please do more video about Finnish language. Grammar videos are desired

[@CloudyFlow]

really well pronounced Finnish for a foreigner, great effort.

[@aarohalme1020]

You did fairly well in speaking finnish. Also it was nice to see some little fact's that i didint know about the langaunge despite being finnish.

[@MT-pf1pv]

The pronunciation is absolutely perfect.

[@erika-dw1ip]

how can you pronounce them so well?! you’re really good👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@user-ub2jp7tg6k]

This is great

[@berpyderpy9301]

Well done! As a finn i can say that you pronounced the words really well.

[@recettezmoi]

can't wait for a new video! I am determined to learn finnish one way or another... but it is hard to find native speakers or even materal for self study.

[@ronnelvictorgelidon6334]

More video please! I really need to learn finnish. I'm applying to work in Finland and I' am required to learn finnish.

[@timomastosalo]

You take courses when you arrive. You can learn something through the web, But it really just becomes relevant and meaningful, when you sit at a course, talking with real people :)

[@toukosiren9004]

Learned it yet? Opitko jo?

[@chuba_]

"More video please! I really need to learn finnish. I'm applying to work in Finland and I'am required to learn finnish." Means "Lisää videoita kiltti! Minun pitää oppia suomea. Minä haen työhakemusta suomesta ja minun pitää osata suomea että pääsen sisään."

[@kurkkupastillitjalammintee]

I am Finnish and a native Finnish speaker, and actually learned a lot of new information, great work :D

[@kaljamaistuuperjantaisin]

Mitä VITTUA

[@inevitablethursday]

So well explained, even I learned something new! Language as a science has never been something I can understand, it comes intuitively or not at all. This does help me explain to myself and others how it actually works. Thank you!

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you for saying so! Glad to be of help!

[@Mwoof.]

Hyvä vidi bro

[@meri-tuuli]

Wow alot of these facts I dindt even know! Yet im a finn! Thank you

[@caroline7648]

minä en puhu soumea minä puhu routsia ja englantia I hope people who speak Finnish would under stand that

[@oddball3095]

Ayep. I understood what you said.

[@bertkarlsson3224]

Caroline Heiknert-Linder I'm Swedish and I think ruotsia is Swedish (Ruotsi is Sweden) and englantia is English (adjective).

[@timomastosalo]

Bert Karlsson Thank you for your interest. In Finnish the languages have the same name as the country, if it isn't something like Union ... Republic ... etc. So they are not adjectives. The adjective for Swedish would be ruotsalainen, and that's used for persons, and things Swedish, except the language. Well, we speak languages (nouns), we don't say I speak the linguistic called English, but the language called English. Plus, compare what else we can speak, besides languages - I can speak rubbish or nonsense, even very well :) The ending -(t)(t)a making ruotsi to ruotsia just means it's in an object form, like the Swedish han to honom & hon to henne (English he to him & she to her) etc. Just in Finnish every word behaves like this. The endings are more regular, luckily :)

[@matu88ma]

I'm estonian and I understand what you're saying ;)

[@meri-tuuli]

Martin A Go away u Eesti

[@memenity2044]

Very good introduction!

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you!

[@lindat2224]

I like this video so much!!! 🤩

[@jazzbeau507]

I wish I could speak this language; the people in Finland are wonderful. I've been there many times.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Favorited! Nice short review. About historical Carelian language area. Before Russian language spread to the area from the south, it was the home of the tribe Carelians. Novgorodians who were allied with the Carelians, gradually took parts of the Karelian land under their control starting 1100 AD, and finally ended their independence 1278 AD. After that Carelians became a tribe divided by two nations: Novgorod and Sweden, and Russian language became dominant on the Novgorodian side.

[@hentehoo27]

Ca. 100 years ago there were nearly 250 000 people who spoke Karelian as mother tongue. Today the number of Karelian speakers has declined to below 40 000 speakers. Same phenomenon applies to the other speakers of Uralic languages living in Russia, thanks to Russification of indigenous peoples...

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Yeah, plenty of them moved into Finland after the Soviet-Finland wars, too. And now their children are Finns, not Karelians any more. But the people who left their country still consider themselves as Karelians.

[@timomastosalo]

Aurinkohirvi Those Karelians who moved to Finland were mostly from the area that had been Sweden or Finland for centuries, meaning that area hadn't been Russia, most of the time. From the Russian side of the Karelia, there were not so many people moving to Finland. So, those Karelians had been Finnish, felt themselves Finnish for generations, that didn't change in Finland. But, of course they had a different dialect, and were sometimes called Russians in the more Western Finland. But now most of their offspring have naturally dropped that dialect, wanting to assimilate. My Finnish roots are elsewhere, so that's not why I'm saying this. Just for the Karelians. I lived in Lahti, which got a huge Karelian population after the WWII. I grew up there in the 70's and 80's, and you couldn't hear who was from Karelia, except of the grandmothers sometimes. I heard more Savo dialect than Karelian in Lahti. For foreigners, Savo is the next province towards heartland Finland, when you come from Karelia in the east. Karelia is a Finnish area divided by the Russians and Swedes centuries ago. Finland would be nearly double its size, if the Karelia hadn't been divided. But what I've read from the old stories, the Karelians in the east didn't want to be Swedish, and those in the Swedish (later Finnish) didn't want to be Russian. Mainly this was because the Swedish side was Catholic and later Lutheran, the Russian side was Orthodoxe.

[@yelsavidaravskaja905]

Aurinkohirvi I really dislike people that claim that Karelians are not Finnish. ”Finnish” in modern times refers to the multiple northern finnic tribes that lived in the area of Finland are now part of the same state. Modern Finns are not direct descendants of JUST the ancient ”sum” tribe, who were the tribe first called by the name ”finns.” Finns today are a mix of Tavastians, Finns, Karelians, Kvens and Izhorians. Claiming that Karelians are not Finnish is equivalent to saying that people living in Tavastia are not Finnish because they don’t live on the coast like the Sum did.

[@navikko4540]

Tiedät paljon maastamme!:) hyvä viedeo

[@iam_sherlocked8421]

Cool video! I'm from Finland. I live in North Karelia (more specific - Joensuu). Greetings from Finland, dude!

[@amplifymysound]

good video

[@mhyotyni]

I would like to add that also some Sami languages (not only Swedish) have official status in some Finnish municipalities nowadays (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_languages#Finland).

[@AcademiaCervena]

Of course! But those municipalities all have a Finnish speaking majority, and are thus depicted as such on the map. Since the video focuses on Finnish, the map shows where this language is spoken by a majority/minority only :)

[@fr0stlegend712]

That helps me so much Ty ☺️

[@N3k0Y0m1]

Yes, please, I need this..

[@carolkahora5344]

this is beautiful. and my hobby being learning new languages, now this is one more added to my list.av just fallen in love with finnish.

[@citadelofwinds1564]

Just like JRR Tolkien did. He based much of certain elven languages of the Lord of the Rings on Finnish.

[@thecarwasherofshangri-la]

The lone word "nyyppä" is one of my favorites simply because it's such a good finn-ification of a word. Means newbie.

[@PaulVinonaama]

Enpä ollut tuollaista kuullut.

[@pakkunen8491]

Im very VERY late. But still this is so good video! You maked very good job on this!

[@user-ji6ip7ou8d]

This is one of the most straightforward videos about languages I've ever seen. The Finnish turns out to be a very beautiful language

[@dqvolskashterka]

I love that book! I've read it in Bulgarian. It's awesome to hear part of it in Finnish :)

[@Officialhelpkenet]

Det skulle vara väldigt intressant att höra om fornnordiska och isländska. Och kanske jämförelser mellan dem och svenskan. Det är väldigt intressant att höra om den gamla grammatiken, med kasus m. m.

[@AcademiaCervena]

Jag ska lägga det förslaget på minnet!

[@blueoceancorporations1019]

Noniin. Nyt meillä on myös virallinen Ruotsi-Kerho täällä kommenteissa xD

[@citadelofwinds1564]

"Noniin." LOL. I have to recommend the "Noniin" video by comedian Ismo Leikola, who correctly describes it as the most important word in Finnish. It's in Finnish with English subtitles. The link is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqWklWpumbyIoqM

[@eelielomaa]

I only understand word jag because i am from Finland and i have study swedish 6 months

[@elsakristina2689]

Och fornsvenska

[@Raitzu]

Hyvä video

[@varokaa7133]

How the f*** are you this good at the Finnish language I am Finnish and this is awesome

[@name_of_gods8739]

hello this is a person from finland and actually I think you sound like a Finnish person (sorry about my bad English)

[@TheSarat14]

You got a new sub!

[@AcademiaCervena]

Welcome! :)

[@LittleImpaler]

I am so glad he talked about top landform. I was wondering what that was.

[@ProductofWit]

This is outside of the scope of this video. But I've read that Khanty and Mansi spoken in Siberia are a Ugric languages just like Hungarian. You sadly barely find anythinh about it online, however as they are very threatened languages.

[@AcademiaCervena]

That's correct. Khanty and Mansi are the closest living relatives of Hungarian. They're both endangered and spoken east of the Ural mountains.

[@KoteDarasuum]

Urgric languages belong in Uralic languages. Thats why finnish and hungary are said to be in finno-ugric or uralic language family.

[@Quadronnn]

@@KoteDarasuum Personally, I just prefer to speak about the "Uralic" language family as a whole, there doesn't seem to be a more definitive consensus everyone can agree on with regard to the sub-categories under the larger family tree, so it's simpler that way. Like, Finnish and Hungarian, for example, are often grouped under the category of "Finno-Ugric" languages, but other times they're referred to as two distinct branches of their own, "Finnic" and "Ugric". And then there are the Sami languages, do they form a branch of their own of the Uralic tree along with "Finno-Ugric" and "Samoyedic"? I have no idea, so it's simpler for me to just think of the "Uralic" languages as a one big, happy family. Of course, even that isn't so simple and clear-cut (I suppose when it comes to languages, it never is.) For example, what is the relationship, if there is one, between the Uralic and the Yukaghir languages? Who knows, not me, that's for sure.

[@renan6118]

I love finnish language

[@mikkokiiski2004]

Renan Queiroz milloin?

[@renan6118]

xD I intend until 2020 at least, I intend to try to find a master degree, job... or something like that :) To stay there a little at least.

[@timomastosalo]

Obrigado!

[@timomastosalo]

Mikko Kiiski Some... day Jonakin päivänä (for you learners)

[@mona-yy3sz]

Miten menee opiskelu?

[@piirakkapoika658]

Hyvää päivää

[@arwasherif1905]

Nice vid

[@asnek2527]

I didn't even know about vowel harmony even though i'm finnish damn

[@Peccath]

They do teach about that in primary school...

[@asnek2527]

@@Peccath eh, i don't remember

[@craftah]

@@asnek2527 don't sleep during the lessons

[@kube129]

BTW you have a good Finnish accent.

[@AcademiaCervena]

Thank you :)

[@kube129]

Academia Cervena You are welcome

[@aapuri2480]

Academia Cervena Every else english speakers Can't speak finnish at all

[@kube129]

That is right.

[@MrAmoss]

I was so sure that you're a native speaker@@AcademiaCervena

[@HelsinkiPink]

I really like how it sounds.

[@TheKatkaRapuu]

As a finlandian it's cute seeing others in the comment section trying their best on speaking our language. I appreciate it.

[@MrOgge50]

Fact for you guys: on paper, Finland is the best country on earth, it may not have the largest economy/military but there is almost no corruption, people have high living standards, medical care, education and security is going really well too.

[@rudde7918]

All of those good things are getting worse, sadly.

[@meri-tuuli]

Rudde No not really

[@Quadronnn]

@@meri-tuuli Corruption increases year after year and the difference in that regard between Finland and other countries is getting smaller, wages remain stagnant while profits for the bosses and capitalists continue to increase, the gap between the rich and the poor is ever growing, unemployment and marginalization are huge problems that the government is trying to downplay and hide with ridiculous non-solutions. Privatization of medical care, closing of facilities providing medical care, fewer teachers teaching larger class rooms, more and more students are being forced to take out a loan to finance their studies and living instead of being granted proper financial aid, foreign powers are encroaching on Finland's sovereignity with the constant war games and military exercises, the growing desire of politicians to have Finland join NATO and have the country get swiped up in foreign wars... Just a few examples of the wrecking that's underway of this supposed "best country on Earth."

[@AoiKyuuketsuki]

i stroked out for a sec when you showed all the 15 cases

[@timomastosalo]

You missed his point. The cases correspond to the English prepositions. Make a list of them, and you'll see how many of them there are. Then that case list is not so alien :) And English has cases with the personal pronouns, like he (nominative) has also the forms his (genitive) & him (accusative). Just Finnish works like that with all the other pronouns, nouns, adjectives & numerals. But there is something that makes the case system hard to learn. Some words change when they get the case ending, I mean the stem itself, the end of the word where the case ending is attached. Then it's the nominative case (simple name case like 'he') that has changed the most, and it's often the less used cases, where the original form has remained. (in a few words it hasn't, but mostly it has). But, it's very predictable, because Finnish grammar rules are mostly sound based, kind of 'hip hop' :)

[@timomastosalo]

Eero Haanpää Then they are not all cases. They are the cases with some other things you can add even after the case ending. Like talossa (in the house/in a house), can become talossani (in my house) & talossanikin (in my house too) etc. Also, the plural comes before the case ending, so taloissa (in the houses/in houses) etc. Then we ca reach to 79 or something. But that approach is not how Finns use them. We don't learn by hart how many forms there are for one word. It's better to learn what the the sall additions mean in the end of the word, and in which order they come. The basic 15 cases the language learner can practise, until getting how the pattern works. After that, you only need to realize with a new word, which pattern it belongs to. Besides, it's more like 12 cases, the 3 last ones in the list of this video are not active, mostly. Meaning, for many words you don't need them.

[@citadelofwinds1564]

In practice, most of the cases are rarely used, and just three of them account for something like 3/4 of total usage in everyday use. As for the rest, they are fairly regular, and the next important group (locative cases) have related endings, so memorising the most often used case endings becomes less daunting.

[@escdarkside]

Pronounciation on point!!! 👌

[@Teag_Brohman15]

and for those who don't find Finnish interesting Tolkien used it as a basis for Quenya (one of the elvish languages)

[@a.person665]

I speak finnish, and I was born in Finland, mutta mä en koskaan tiennyt oikein mitään Suomen historiasta -3- Tämä opettaa paljon uusia asioita :>

[@FakeXyxy]

Finland is easy, go to Square and Scream "SUOMI PERKELE!"

[@jyrkilehtinen9886]

This was a very high quality lecture. Essential things were presented.

[@kornaes]

I am Finnish native speaker, but I still like this, it's informative and simplistic. :)

[@nakkilama2645]

wait what you're swedish??? you literally have no accent at all (by that i mean you sound like a native english speaker lol). also your finnish is almost perfect, but the accent just makes it funnier to hear, it sounds really cute :D

[@craftah]

He doesnt sound like a native english speaker

[@craftah]

The way he said dog sounds like dahg

[@nakkilama2645]

@@aliceberethart that's cool!! it's the same here, since swedish and finnish are both official languages here. we see swedish everywhere and it's cool, it's easy for us to learn eachother's languages :D

[@SocialistFinn1]

Kinda sad to see how Finnish is decreasing outside Finland, how come Swedish isn't decreasing in Finland?

[@AcademiaCervena]

The share of Swedish speakers in Finland has been steadily decreasing for over 100 years.

[@SocialistFinn1]

Academia Cervena, I know but hasn't it stayed steady at around 5% in recent years? Of course a hundred years ago it was like 12% and before that I think it was up to 20-30% but in recent years has it also decreased?

[@AcademiaCervena]

I believe it has been more stable since the turn of the milennium. In absolute numbers the number of Swedish speakers has stopped decreasing, but the share has still decreased, although at a slower pace than before (5,9% in 1990; 5,3% in 2016). But a continued decrease can be seen in other ways. For example the share of Swedish speakers in the Uusimaa province fell from 11,3% in 1990 to 8,1% in 2016. Granted, the share of Finnish speakers in the same region fell from 87,6 to 79,9% in the same time, but since immigrants in this region tend to adopt Finnish as their second language, the "market share" of Finnish will not be hurt, while as for Swedish, it will.

[@SocialistFinn1]

Academia Cervena, yeah I guess that's true. Also, weird how in Uusimaa, Finnish is only spoken by about 3/4, I guess that's what immigration does.

[@citadelofwinds1564]

Swedish in Finland has decreased quite a bit. About 100 years ago, an estimated 20% spoke Swedish as their first language, but these days it's more like 5%. Also, it's largely confined to very small areas, mostly coastal, and of course the Swedish-speaking Åland Islands, so outside these areas you would find very few native Swedish speakers to carry on the language to the next generations.

[@Ama-Elaini]

There's an exception to the wovel harmony, compound words. For example, "jääveistos" (ice sculpture), simply made of "jää" (ice) + "veistos" (sculpture).

[@wess4711]

Mahtava! Tosi hyvää! Ei Hasumpa!

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

It sound like you spent some time learning to pronounce Finnish.