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HuudaHarkiten t1_j3g9qjv wrote

Reply to comment by roffadude in Archaeologists Unearth Viking Hall in Denmark by tangledwebgenealogy

> Finnish is not related to Danish so that’s really unlikely.

I wasnt implying it was. We have a lot of loan words.

> Finnish is related to only one European language.

Two, actually. Estonian is related closely, Hungarian not that closely.

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Memento-Epstein t1_j3lvu45 wrote

Isn't Saami also distantly related? By related I mean all languages in the Finno-ugiric language group, which I believe includes the aforementioned languages, plus probably some more I don't know.

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HuudaHarkiten t1_j3lwijn wrote

Oh deary me, how did that drop out from my head. You are correct, Sámi is related but more distantly.

Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian are Finno-Ugric languages while Sámi is a Finno-permic language. Finno-permic is a split from Finno-Ugric. There are more languages in the Finno-permic group as well.

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