Scandinavian Languanges

on Omegle with a Finnish guy
You: I read that the Scandinavian languages are more closely related to Uralic and Turkic languages than Latin and Greek
Stranger: you are wrong
Stranger: that's a malicious lie
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Well what is it? Are they really related to Central Asian languages, or is the guy right?

Finnish is a Uralic language
The real Scandis (Danish, Norwegian, and Sweden) are from the Germanic family.

Well what is it? Are they really related to Central Asian languages, or is the guy right?

No one can actually say for sure whether Uralic languages are related to Turkic languages or not, but numerous titillating similarities can be found between the two language families. I find it very interesting, for example, that Uralic and Turkic personal pronouns resemble each other to a very high degree:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages#Evidence_for_a_genetic_relationship

However, most modern linguists would probably say that Uralic and Turkic languages (and also Japanese and Korean) aren't related at all. There are a few notable exceptions, though, and I've met a lot of people who are convinced that the so-called Ural-Altaic family of languages exists.

Dude, Finland isn't even a part of scandinavia which consists of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. All of which have Germanic Languages (which btw are mutually understandable).

Dude, Finland isn't even a part of scandinavia which consists of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. All of which have Germanic Languages (which btw are mutually understandable).

>>5
Denmark's not even on the goddamn Scandinavian peninsula. They're more Low Germanic than "Scandinavian" and they speak unintelligible hurpadurp. Only Norwegians and Swedes can understand each other.

>>6
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are all intelligible.

>>6
Sweden and Norway are merely breakaway provinces of Denmark.

No one ever fucking remembers Iceland or Faroe Islands. The Finnish don't speak anything that even resembles the rest of Scandinavia.

>>9
They speak Swedish too.

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>>10
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>>3
Pronouns from many seemingly unrelated Eurasian languages are strangely similar, really.

>>12
Par example?

>>13
Take Mongolian. The Mongolian word for "you" is "ta" and "bid" means "we". In Turkish we have "sen" and "biz". Both are similar to Indo-European pronouns. It could be a coincidence, but it's sometimes used as evidence by proponents of the Nostratic theory.

Danish+Swedish+Norwegian = Scandinavian language.
Scandinavian + English + German + Gothic +... = Germanic branch.
Germanic + Italic + Celtic + Slav +Indoiranian +... = Indoeuropean family.

Finnish IS NOT an Indoeuropean language. It's an Uralic language, related to Hungarian, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt. So, Finnish is, as far as we know, NOT EVEN related with Scandinavian language.

About Central Eurasian languages: some hypothesis propose that Uralic and Altaic languages are related. If this is true, yes, Finnish is more related to Mongolian, Turkish and Korean.

>>15
Finns were inside Europe thousands of years before the "Indoeuropeans" arrived you racist basterd

>>16
0/10

>>16
And the problem with my post is...?

>>18
Finns are Asian scum that don't belong in Europe, they come from behind the Urals

>>19
Proof? Also, you must be thinking of the Sami, not Finns. And hell, even some of them don't look anywhere near Asian.

I don't care where the Finns come from, Jarkko Oikarinen invented IRC and that's good enough for me.

>>19
Genetically, Finns ARE Europeans. Period.

Linguistically, doesn't make sense to divide Eurasia in Europe and Asia.

Samefag as >>22
And truth to be told, Finnish came from the Urals (not Europe).
But Indoeuropeans came from Anatolia (Asia Minor - not Europe).

The only race born at Europe is already dead - Homo neanderthalensis.