Show threadToni AittoniemiApr 6, 2025
My language family tree.
Now almost all of this is russified.
With contemporary Russians claiming ”slavic heritage” of many cultural artefacts developed by Finno-Ugrians.
That’s how empire works.
#finnic #finnish #estonian #finnougriclanguages #russia
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Aug 21, 2024

🔴 🎥 Germanic Loanwords in Finnic Languages (with Dr. Johan Schalin)

“Dr. Johan Schalin presents on the fascinating history of the long interaction between Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages and Finnic languages, and the many different periods in which Germanic loanwords entered and became a part of Finnic.”

#Video length: one hour and thirty four minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/LIgKd0Ovzy8

#LoanWords #Words #Germanic #Finnic #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Scandinavia #Europe @linguistics

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Show threadJohannaLaakso MOVED/MUUTTANUTDec 13, 2023

@yvanspijk
Words like this are not easily borrowed, but a derivative made its way to Finnic from Low German/Dutch (possibly also via Swedish): Fi. ahteri ‘stern of ship’ (> coll. ‘butt’).

Some *ab(a)-prefixed words have also been borrowed. My favourite is Low Saxon aff-late ‘indulgence, AB-solution of sins’ > ‘divine service’ (Livonian lōt) > ‘market’ (Estonian laat). The prefix itself, however, got lost in the process. Finnic speakers obviously didn't appreciate it.
#etymology #Finnic

AhoDec 11, 2023

#russia is committing #ethniccleansing with in it's own territory by sending #indigenouspeople as #cannonfodder in #Ukraine
More voices from #Siberia about this #genocide

What will happen next? Will we see that those with #Ukrainian and #Finnic roots will always be exterminated? Seems #putin wants to create the #FourthReich with concentration camps.

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20060859

”Putin käyttää hyökkäystä Ukrainaan etnisenä puhdistuksena Venäjällä”, sanoo Siperian alkuperäiskansaan kuuluva aktivisti

Pohjoisesta värvätään miehiä sotaan, mutta ei niinkään Moskovasta. Sahalaisen aktivistin mukaan erinäköistä ei aina palvella kaupassa, ja valkoisen Venäjän alueelle meno on hänelle riski.

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Sanna PedenDec 1, 2023

There are thousands of scrolls of birch bark lodged in the soil in Novgorod, and they demonstrate a surprising level of popular literacy in the medieval period.

One of the scrolls (any word you use will be too fancy for the real thing, which is literally just a scrap of bark) is the earliest written text in a Balto-Finnic language (cool) and contains a spell or incantation of some kind (very cool).

I've been fascinated with birch bark letter #292 for a long time, so it was an obvious choice for a 'vaguely Finnish, weirdly specific' video.

Take a moment to enjoy my enthusiastic gesticulating about transliteration and back pain - and if you are particularly diverted, do give it a boost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1ie5fyrY0

#birchbark #gramota #filtrit #linguistics #archaeology #Finnish #finnic #literacy #myth #magic #medieval #Karelian

Birch Bark Letter #292

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Sanna PedenNov 30, 2023

My turn! Tomorrow's Filtrit episode is *extremely* vaguely Finnish and very, very specific. Archaeological treasure, linguistic mystery, the concept of literacy and the ire of ancient gods - what's not to like?

I had to learn medieval Cyrillic to make it, so commitment to the bit is strong in this one. 📜💪

Subscribe at https://youtube.com/@drfiltrit and help validate my life choices.

#linguistics #archaeology #finnic #filtrit #myth #language #translation #translitteration #literacy #medieval

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Filtrit is run by Finnish-Australian writers Anu Besson and Sanna Peden. We cover anything that interests us, as long as it’s even vaguely Finnish. Anu is interested in nearly everything, but her PhD is from environmental aesthetics (JYU 2019). She loves to travel and share her observations. Sanna’s background is in European Studies (PhD UWA 2012). She is a lapsed academic, occasional poet and regular overthinker. Filtrit is produced on Noongar land. *** Filtrit-projektia pyörittävät australiansuomalaiset Anu Besson ja Sanna Peden. Aiheina on mitä tahansa suomalaisuuteen liittyvää, välillä englanniksi ja välillä suomeksi. Anun tutkinto on ympäristöestetiikan alalta (FT JYU 2019), mutta häntä kiinnostaa vähän kaikki. Anun lempiharrastus on matkustaminen ja matkoista kertominen. Sanna on eurooppalaisen kulttuurihistorian puolelta (PhD UWA 2012). Sanna on viime vuosina kunnostautunut runoilijana sekä yleisenä maailmanparantajana. Filtrit tuotetaan Noongar-kansan mailla.

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Show threadJohan Schalin, PhDJun 30, 2023
@exaggerated I am actually more into #Germanic myself, but trying to keep up with #Finnic sound history as well: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335789039_Scandinavian-Finnic_Language_Contact_and_Problems_of_Periodisation
Show threadJohan Schalin, PhDJun 19, 2023

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.

jansegersSep 21, 2018
Toki Pona and his many language families https://plume.mastodon.host/~/TokiPonaAConlangAndItsSpeakers/toki-pona-and-his-many-language-families/
Toki Pona and his many language families ⋅ Plume

janPiteJansekeSep 20, 2018

Toki Pona has words from Germanic, Finnic, Slavic, Sinitic, Romance, Bantu, Niger-Congo(1), Japonic, Inuit, Celtic, Creole(2), Austronesian(3) and conlang (4) origin, so Toki Pona could be called a worldlang or , better, a worldpigin ...

(1) Akan

(2) Tok Pisin

(3) Tongan 'kulupu' (but it is loanword from English 'group')

(4) Esperanto

and all of this in just some 123 words ...

#TokiPona #mention #conlang #sona #konlan #etymons #etymology #sona_nimi #tan_nimi #LanguageFamilies
#Germanic #Finnic #Slavic #Sinitic #Romance #Bantu #Niger-Congo #Japonic #Inuit #Celtic #Creole #Austronesian #conlang
#worldlang #minilang
#Germanic #Finnic #Slavic #Sinitic #Romance #Bantu #Niger-Congo #Japonic #Inuit #Celtic #Creole #Austronesian #conlang