The Finnish Language - FULL ANALYSIS! 🇫🇮

Hey guys, today we will be discussing the Finnish Language! This will be a full analysis on the Finnish language discussing every part of said Finnish language. This includes syntax, phonology, writing etc. I've been working on this full analysis for the Finnish language for quite a while, so make sure to leave a like and subscribe if you enjoyed! This is the second entry of my language analysis series, so there will be more languages than just Finnish, so let me know in the comments on what you want a full analysis for next!
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Shoutout to @LingoLizard and @Langfocus for inspiring me to make these videos!
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Chapter 1: The Overview
1:39 - Chapter 2: History
6:07 - Chapter 3: Finland Language Strife
7:59 - Chapter 4: Orthography
14:03 - Chapter 5: Phonology
23:32 - Chapter 6: Grammar Intro
24:26 - Chapter 7: Pronouns
28:41 - Chapter 8: Nouns
38:24 - Chapter 9: Adjectives
41:15 - Chapter 10: Postpositions and Prepositions
42:10 - Chapter 11: Conjugations and Verbs
58:34 - Chapter 12: Adverbs
59:46 - Chapter 13: Numerals
1:00:50 - Chapter 14: Sentence Structure
1:04:13 - Chapter 15: Lexicon
1:09:34 - Chapter 16: Linguistic Registers
1:15:53 - Chapter 17: Sisu
1:16:56 - Outro
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[@PolyglotMouse]

Hey guys! Between school and making sure this video is edited perfectly, I kinda lost track of time, so sorry for the wait! But I'm sure you guys will love this one! Tell me what other types of videos you'd like to see as well (and what other videos I should analyze).

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Kiitos videosta. Thanks for video.

[@PolyglotMouse]

@@turkoositerapsidi No problem!

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@PolyglotMouse 👍

[@djinit8194]

You mention Finland anywhere on the internet and finns will flock there to say: "torille!"

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Torilta

[@polymloth]

Torilla tavataan!

[@polymloth]

Some notes on pronunciation if you’re interested: - the plosives k,g,p,b,t,d are completely unaspirated. - 4:49 Shoutout to rauman giäl (Rauma dialect) which was the last dialect (as far as I’m aware) to lose [ð] and [θ], only around 30 years ago! - As you mentioned, the stress of a word always falls on the first syllable, but you seemed to forget this every time you pronounced a Finnish word haha :D - ä is pronounced as [æ]. You mostly pronounced it as either [ɛ] (8:10) or [a] (9:37) but got it right at 12:26. You also pronounced ö as [ø] which was pretty close but it’s actually [ø̞/œ̝]. (Not judging but trying to help!) - 9:57 the letter z in “hattu z” is pronounced “tseta” with a distinct [t] sound. - I’d recommend some IPA vowel drills to fix the pronunciation of [æ], [ø], and [u] at 14:26. I also found it quite interesting how you made the [o] into a diphthong, adding a slight [ʊ] at the end, as Americans often do. - The Finnish h has actually 3 different allophones, though generally only those who have studied linguistics are aware of this. So, for the non-linguist Finns: try saying “kahvi” (velar, [x]), “hame” (breathy, [ɦ]), and “lyhty” (palatal, [ç]). Blew my mind the first time I realised it haha - 22:30* [ŋ] not [n]. Maybe try saying “yangai”, dropping the “ya”, and then isolating the “ng”. That’s [ŋ]. (ยังไง [jaŋ.ŋaj] = colloq. “how” in Thai) Thanks for the video! :)

[@PolyglotMouse]

Thanks for the insight!

[@Kari-qv1wn]

The first example of finnish being someone saying they cant speak finnish is hilarious

[@PolyglotMouse]

Lol, I should've put a clip of somebody speaking Finnish. I have done it in my more recent videos if you want to check it out!

[@ethandouro4334]

Finally a video about one of my favourites languages in Europe! Thank you

[@PolyglotMouse]

No problem! Glad you like it!

[@ethandouro4334]

@@PolyglotMouse Yeah I liked it a lot, good video by the way!

[@ZadenZane]

Hi I didn't realise just how new your channel was. If you want some ideas on what language to feature next I'd propose: Japanese. Probably the most popular non-European language among language students in "the west". I've met so many people online who say they're studying or want to study Chinese and Japanese. Chinese for money and Japanese for fun. So please analyse this fun language! Welsh: the most widely spoken indigenous minority language in the UK. One of the most gorgeous languages of Europe. And JRR Tolkien really loved it. Basque. Just because. Maltese. Semitic language with a huge amount of Italian vocab. (Maltese, Basque and Welsh all have approximately the same number of native speakers by the way, somewhere around half a million...)

[@PolyglotMouse]

Hey, thanks for the comment! I'm planning on doing all of these at some point, most likely Welsh sooner, but it's funny how we have the same taste for languages because the latter 3 you mentioned I absolutely love. If you don't mind sticking around, then I'll get these done at some point because not only do these videos take a while to make, but I've recently been getting a lot of requests. I'm excited to make more videos, and I hope you enjoyed this one!

[@NuanceBleue]

Edit : my comment is mostly criticism but I really liked the video and thank you for it, I learnt so many things ! I love your speed of speech but I hate this annoying background music ahah and you could sometimes articulate a bit more for a good understanding (I needed the text to understand sometimes). Also I agree with the other comment : capital letter to each word is making reading difficult. For a video that long, changing the grey background or having something warmer may make the video more enjoyable and nicer as well as decreasing the letter size, and letting each sentence a little longer on screen.

[@PolyglotMouse]

Yes, I actually removed the background music from future ones because I thought it was annoying, too, and because of copyright claims. Also, I wasn't too comfortable talking on camera, especially because my script was 88 pages long so I was a little bit tired by the end, but I feel like I've improved in my recent vids. Same thing with the capital letters, which I don't do anymore. Also, in regards to the background color, I feel like grey is really good because it's neutral, and I feel like warmer colors could actually be annoying to look at for too long. I can try maroon if you want? If anybody else has the same suggestions, then I'll look into it. Thanks for the thougful comment!

[@ollum1]

​@@PolyglotMouseI liked the classical music used in the video

[@0mgskillz96]

Such an informative video! The fact you mentioned the optative and eventive is insane! I'm a Finnish language major and even I learned something new xd If you want to make another video on an Uralic language, I could suggest a Mordvinic language (Erzyan or Mokshan, the latter is less researched), since I feel like you would be interested in the grammar; it's super complicated and agglutinative, but any type of linguistic content will do. Subscribed!

[@PolyglotMouse]

Thanks a lot! Comments like this make my day! I will definitely look into your suggestions

[@OmegaTaishu]

Amazing vid! Thank you for the hard work in putting everything together

[@PolyglotMouse]

No problem! I'm happy that you enjoyed 😉 ☺️

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Pappi means priest, not bishop, that would be piispa.

[@PolyglotMouse]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@PolyglotMouse You welcome, you did had correct in latter part of the video on the examples you found somewhere, if I remember correctly tho.

[@duohou123]

Excellent video, I really appreciate the detail you went into. Keep up the good work!

[@PolyglotMouse]

Thanks!

[@alonzoperez2470]

Suomi on todella kaunis maa. At least I learnt how to say "Finland is a really beautiful country"!!

[@PolyglotMouse]

That's really cool! It's always cool to know a few phrases in a different language!

[@alonzoperez2470]

@@PolyglotMouse yeah. Russian next

[@user-me5dw1bb7l]

i like the video, but since it's over an hour long, i would expect your pronunciation to be a bit better. the major stuff that caught my attention is that you pronounce "u" and "ö" as "y", "a" and "ä" sound very similar, that you pronounced /ŋ/ as /ɲ/ and how a lot of the time you skip over vowels

[@PolyglotMouse]

Hey thanks for letting me know! It's probably just my accent and because I don't speak Finnish lol.

[@user-me5dw1bb7l]

@@PolyglotMouse yeah that's understandable

[@pibemacaco]

Amazing video!

[@PolyglotMouse]

Thanks!

[@toinenosoite3173]

A valiant effort! Just continue with your pronounciation exercises. PS. te -> ti -> si, which totally explains the vesi, veden, vettä

[@ahmetkanati]

i'd like to see more "altaic" languages. even though they are not real i like the umbrella term

[@MercyfulJester]

Native Finnish here. At 1:11:50 I'm kinda confused. I've never heard or seen (nor can I even understand) "isä'iän", even though you claim that that is the current form for colloquial Finnish. Rather, it sounds like some form of archaic poetry. Did you accidentally switch these examples up or something? Furthermore, apostrophe is only very rarely used, mainly when the letter "k" is missing from a word due to consonant gradation.

[@PolyglotMouse]

Glad to see a Finn watching my video and you are completely correct to be confused. I forgot to mention that this happens in very few dialects, specifically Savo. Let me know if that helps!

[@MercyfulJester]

@@PolyglotMouse Ok, the Savo dialect is a wild one for sure and it would've cleared things up if you had mentioned that you are referring to it in the video. In my mind that example is such a weird special case that it felt odd to characterize the spoken language through that specific example. Someone from south-eastern parts of Finland might not bat an eye, I guess.

[@PolyglotMouse]

Apparently this is common in some Helsinki dialects too, but maybe I'm incorrect. Either way thanks for letting me know

[@polymloth]

To add an example of use of the apostrophe: koko = size ko’oissa = in sizes As in: Onko tätä isommissa ko’oissa? = Do you have this is larger sizes? (Or more literally translated: Does this exist in larger sizes)

[@JoeBidenOfficial]

you should talk about welsh/other brythonic languages

[@PolyglotMouse]

I put it on my list!

[@excancerpoik]

You pronounce the vowels way to far back otherwise its pretty good also Ä is like the a in cat ö is kinda like the e in brother but not really idk its the same ö as german if you have ever studiet that language

[@PolyglotMouse]

Hey, thanks for the comment and tip. I practiced it for a bit because I wanted to make sure it sounded decent. However, I've never spoken a language with these letters/phonemes before. It wasn't until later that I realized I was messing up the ä and it was too late lol

[@hopoheikki8503]

"Tietääm" should be most likely be "tiedämme"

[@filipecalado5773]

1:00 I'm looking for these Finnish people who live in Brazil, where are you?

[@Arotrace]

23:38 "Grammmar"

[@themaskedman5954]

Can you do analysis for Hindi?

[@PolyglotMouse]

I have put it on my list!

[@waynesmith3767]

Wish you would speak at a normal speed.

[@PolyglotMouse]

I'll take that into future consideration thanks 😊 👍

[@David12scht]

Second this, but don't worry to much about it. It's normal for starting KZbinrs to take some time to find their style and speed

[@ollum1]

There is no "normal" speed

[@waynesmith3767]

@@ollum1 not here for sure

[@vincentvooyz]

Finnish and Malay are similar

[@slimball1939]

Country of Finland speaks Finnish Country of Suomi speaks Suomea Not Finnish = Suomi

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Suomi

[@channel_._.]

I'm so annoyed you're pronouncing U as Y and Ä as E!!

[@jimnewton4534]

one of the most unique? how can something be more or the most unique?

[@PolyglotMouse]

Everything is unique, but to a person who speaks an indo-european language, to which I'm sure you can relate, this language is definitely way more exotic than a lot of European languages.

[@jimnewton4534]

@@PolyglotMouse unique means one of a kind. It is impossible to be more unique than one of a kind.

[@memoredspectrum]

too many english words, not finnish...

[@SilentOnion]

finnish rant thats kinda unrelated to the video: its insanely stupid that swedish is still a forced school subject even though about 5% of the population speaks it as their native language and for those people the rest of the population has to learn swedish. and even if you actually do learn swedish its highly unlikely that you will ever use it because youll only hear it in a few specific areas of finland, mainly the western coast and even then you wont need to use it unless you work as a cashier or something. especially today i think this requirement is even more stupid as the government takes more and more immigrants who speak neither finnish or swedish as their native languages and as the internet only gets bigger and bigger (and the finnish kid's english skills get better) i feel as if the finnish language is slowly starting to die out or at least morph into a disgusting mix of english words slightly altered to fit the finnish language rules. you can already hear this in the dialect spoken in the capital, helsinki. any normal finnish person listening to a clip of someone living in helsinki speaking will feel like they are going insane. i can even see this in myself. as i spend a lot of my time talking on the internet in english i tend to often think "oh god what is that word in finnish again" and it worries me. finnish is a beautiful language itd be a shame to see it die or essentially turn into english (which is a stupid bad language that i absolutely hate) an older extreme example clip of "finglish" can be found on "parvekefilosofi"'s channel on youtube with the title "Englannin kielen maisteri"

[@PolyglotMouse]

Hey, thanks for the comment. Yes, I agree that Finnish is a beautiful language that deserves to be preserved, and furthermore, Swedish doesn't necessarily need to be taught. I understand that English needs to be taught because of media. However, I don't agree with the part of you calling it stupid. Maybe you can organize a group to talk about why Swedish doesn't need to be taught and that the country should focus more on Finnish? I'm not too sure, I wish more countries would offer Finnish as a foreign language. Unfortunately, governments only care about profit.

[@toinenosoite3173]

@@PolyglotMouse Just to expand on the first comment: In Finland, we have Finnish- and Swedish-speaking schools. In both, the second official language of the country is obligatory, i.e. Swedish in the first ones, and Finnish in the second ones. Otherwise, I won't touch this subject at all...

[@alexius108]

What on earth makes people write every single word with a capital letter?.. Schizophrenia, that's it.

[@PolyglotMouse]

Lol I didn't even realize I thought it'd look cool 😅

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Doesn't Deutsch speakers do that when they write?

[@alexius108]

@@turkoositerapsidi - No they don't, they even write the word “deutsch” with a small letter if it's not the first word in a sentence.

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@alexius108 I gues yes, but substantives they write in capitals.

[@alexius108]

@@turkoositerapsidi - Yeah, right. But not every single word! That's my point.