Re: OT: slightly OT: language ID's?
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 3, 2001, 19:48 |
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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> Värttinä's Finnish. I'm rather a fan of them, in fact. Hähkämine looks
> like a Finnish word too. (But if I remember my Finnish vowel harmony rules,
> Värska is an ill-formed word.)
> The rest I dunno about.
Yes, because it is Estonian, which has lost vowel harmony. Of all the
Balto-Finnic languages I have the most difficulty in pronouncing Estonian,
because I want instinctively to apply harmony...
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