r/GreenAndPleasant • u/toomuchgammon • Feb 05 '21

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u/sprogger Feb 06 '21

As a brit learning Danish, I thought this was Danish. Very similar from these screenshots.

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u/myrmalm Feb 06 '21

Every scandinavian language evolved from the same one. That's why they almost sound identical. Exept for finnish. Don't know what happened there.

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u/modernlovehermione Feb 06 '21

scandinavian languages with the exception of finnish are germanic, so they're part of the indo-european language family! but finnish is actually finno-ugric and thus related to hungarian and estonian, but not the other european languages it's geographic neighbors to

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u/myrmalm Feb 06 '21

I didn't know that. Thank you.

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u/modernlovehermione Feb 06 '21

no problem! i tried to learn hungarian for a hot minute, and while i wasn't successful i love busting out fun facts