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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by sriku on Friday November 06, 2020 @06:06AM (#25006743)
I live in South India and I find Finnish easy to my ears (I speak Tamil) due to the double consonants and double vowels that Tamil shares.

In fact a Finnish friend of my dad's learnt Tamil via remote from one of our poets .. to get proficient enough to translate some ancient poetry into Finnish!

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_H%C3%A4meenniemi

Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by yencabulator on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:59PM (#25022432)
As a Finn, sometimes when I see a Tamil name I have to do a double take because at first I'll try to read it as a Finnish name. The written forms of the the languages seem to have eerie similarities, though I fully expect them to superficial coincidences.