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The main peculiarities in the Finnish alphabet are the two extra vowels ä and ö (and Swedish å , which is not actually needed in Finnish). In Finnish, these extra letters are collectively called ääkköset when they need to be distinguished from the ISO basic Latin alphabet ; the word is a somewhat playful modification of aakkoset , which ...
Scandinavian Braille is a braille alphabet used, with differences in orthography and punctuation, for the languages of the mainland Nordic countries: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish. In a generally reduced form it is used for Greenlandic .
The text, as transliterated to the Latin alphabet by Yuri Yeliseyev in 1959 [6] and interpreted in modern Finnish: jumolanuoli ï nimizi . nouli se han oli omo bou. jumola soud'ni iohovi Jumalannuoli, kymmenen [on] nimesi . Tämä nuoli on Jumalan oma . Tuomion-Jumala johtaa. In English, this means roughly the following: God's arrow, ten [is ...
Livvi-Karelian [6] (Alternate names: Liygi, Livvi, Livvikovian, Olonets, Southern Olonetsian, Karelian; Russian: ливвиковское наречие, romanized: livvikovskoye narechiye) [6] [7] is a supradialect of Karelian, which is a Finnic language of the Uralic family, [8] spoken by Olonets Karelians (self-appellation livvi, livgilaizet), traditionally inhabiting the area between ...
All languages using the Arabic alphabet are written right-to-left. A number of other languages have been written in the Arabic alphabet in the past, but now are more commonly written in Latin characters; examples include Turkish, Somali and Swahili.
The table below lists the conventionally postulated diphthongs in Finnish. In speech (i.e. phonetically speaking) a diphthong does not sound like a sequence of two different vowels; instead, the sound of the first vowel gradually glides into the sound of the second one with full vocalization lasting through the whole sound.
Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish [1] (Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) [2] is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 ...
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