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6 unusual facts about Finnic


Early Finnish wars

Terra Feminarum, described in Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church) by Adam of Bremen in 1075, is presumed to refer to the Finnic Kvenland, which at the time covered a part of the modern-day Finland.

Finns

On the basis of comparative linguistics, it has been suggested that the separation of the Finnic and the Sami languages took place during the 2nd millennium BC, and that the proto-Uralic roots of the entire language group date from about the 6th to the 8th millennium BC.

Finnveden

However, it is known that in addition to the Uralic Sami people, the Finnic tribe of Kvens have historically inhabited areas of Scandinavia which today are part of Norway and Sweden.

Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan

It has been presumed, that by "two Kvenlands" here the abbot probably referred to Kvenland and Finland, as the two were both inhabited by culturally quite similar type of Finnic peoples/tribes (in addition to the Uralic Sami) that in other Islandic sources are sometimes said to have been ruled by the same kings.

Mordovian cuisine

Finnic tribes settled on the riversides, in places convenient for fishing.

Tornedalians

The Tornedalians are descendants of Scandinavian and Fennoscandian Finnic Kvens as well as Finns who at some point in history settled to the area of today's Northern Sweden and the Torne Valley region near the present-day Swedish-Finnish border and west from there.


Čičiliusku

Amongst those who founded the company were teachers, students and alumni of the Faculty of Baltic Finnic languages of the Petrozavodsk State University.

Finnic languages

Palatalization is a part of the Estonian literary language and is an essential feature in Võro, as well as Veps, Karelian and other eastern Finnic languages.

Finnic mythologies

Baltic Finnic mythologies are additionally related to shamanism in Siberia on one hand, and to Indo-European Baltic and Germanic mythologies on the other.

Izh

Ingrian language, a Finnic language spoken by the Izhorians of Ingria

Kaija

Kaija is a contemporary feminine personal name thought to have arisen as a Finnic variant of the Katrin, or alternatively from Katariina.

Võro

Võro language, a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonia


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