Re: Uusisuom's influences

Daniel44 wrote:

> It's major two influences have been Finnish and Lithuanian:
>
> Finnish = one of the oldest modern languages in Europe; ties to
> Saami nomadic languages,
Well, if I understand things correctly, the Finns originally spoke
some Proto-Indo-European language, but later took over the language
of the proto-Saami when the Finns came to what is now known as Finland.
So I'd say it's more than "ties" to Saami ;-). Finnish is Saami with
a PIE substrate.

||| daniel (the swedish one).

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