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Re:Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural l... by tellarin on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:04PM (#12951257)
No no no. Finish is a machine gun language. And a broken one at that. Everything sounds like ratatata ta ta. PS: Too long working for Nokia, I guess. ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural l... by bitwize on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:20PM (#12951391)
Finnish and Japanese have enough in common (agglutinative, SOV word order, double consonants and vowels) that some linguists think they might be distantly related.

Listen to some spoken Japanese; you might find it sounds a lot like Finnish.

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