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11 unusual facts about Finnish language


Airut:aamujen

Airut:aamujen ("The Harbinger of Dawns" in Finnish) differs from other Tenhi albums by being nearly entirely played on merely piano, bass and drums (acoustic guitar and synthesizer make only brief and subtle appearances and are not even mentioned in the booklet).

Helsinki Ice Hall

It is sometimes called "Petoluola", Finnish for "The beast's cave", referring to the logo of 2nd logo of HIFK: a red panther or the Old Hall of Helsinki as it is dated in comparison to Hartwall Areena, which is the largest indoor arena in the country.

Jacques Carelman

This work has been translated into 19 languages (included Korean, Hebrew and Finnish).

Jalometalli

Jalometalli is the Finnish word for noble metal.

Maiden of the North

Composed in 1898, it was the first opera composed in the Finnish language; while other Finnish operas had been written previously, they had been composed in the Swedish language instead of the native Finnish.

Middle-earth Role Playing

A Finnish language edition (Keski-Maa Roolipeli or KERP) was published in 1990 and the game became one of the most popular fantasy role playing games in Finland.

Näääk

He claims that he got his name Näääk, which he has been using since 2003, from a friend who tried to spell the word "Negro" in Finnish, but misspelled it and wrote N-Ä-Ä-Ä-K-E-R-R-I instead of the right spelling; N-E-E-K-E-R-I.

Samppa

Samppa is a common Finnish given name.

Tuntematon sotilas

Tuntematon sotilas, Finnish for "The Unknown Soldier" can refer to any of the following

Víctor Merino

Initially the contract was for five years, but Merino struggled to accommodate himself with the change in climate and the Finnish language.

You to Me Are Everything

A fennecized version entitled "Ei enempää voi pyytää" was recorded in 1978 by Petri Pettersson.


Ali Abdolrezaei

Ali Abdolrezaei's poems have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian and Urdu.

Finns

In addition to the Finnish-speaking inhabitants of Finland, also Kvens (people of Finnish descent in Norway), Tornedalians (people of Finnish descent in northernmost Sweden), and Karelians in the historic Finnish province of Karelia and Evangelical Lutheran Ingrian Finns (both in the northwestern Russian Federation), as well as Finnish expatriates in various countries are usually considered as Finnish people.

Gyula Szepesy

He studied not only spoken languages such as German, Finnish, Swedish, Russian but classical languages Latin and Old Greek, too.

Haroun El Poussah

Haroun El Poussah (also called Haroun El Plassid in English or Harun-El-Pullah in Finnish) is the caliph in the Iznogoud comics series, created by René Goscinny and Jean Tabary.

Hartikainen

Hartikainen is a Finnish language family name related to the name Hartwig.

Jim Borgman

"Zits" is syndicated in over 1500 newspapers around the world and is translated into eight languages, including German, Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Finnish.

Kontula metro station

Kontula (Finnish) or Gårdsbacka (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Lake Ilmen

According to the Max Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, the name of the lake originates from the Finnish "Ilmajärvi", which means "small lake".

Logogram

Many alphabetic systems such as those of Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish and Finnish make the practical compromise of standardizing how words are written while maintaining a nearly one-to-one relation between characters and sounds.

Magnus Lindberg

This piece was written for and premiered by the new-music ensemble Toimii ("It Works" in the Finnish language), which Lindberg founded during the summer of 1980.

Mellunmäki metro station

Mellunmäki (Finnish) or Mellungsbacka (Swedish) is a ground-level bridge station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Morjärv railway station

Morjärv Station (Morjärv järnvägsstation in Swedish, Morajärven rautatieasema in Finnish) is a railway station located on the Boden to Haparanda railway line in the village of Morjärv in northern Sweden.

Myllypuro metro station

Myllypuro (Finnish) or Kvarnbäcken (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Palatalization

In using the Latin alphabet for Uralic languages, palatalization is typically denoted with an acute accent, as in Võroś⟩; an apostrophe, as in Karelian ⟨s’⟩; or digraphs in j, as in the Savo dialect of Finnish, ⟨sj⟩.

Pentti Holappa

He has also worked as a translator; among the poets and authors whose work he has translated into Finnish are Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Reverdy, and J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Rastila metro station

Rastila (Finnish) or Rastböle (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the eastern branch (Itäkeskus - Vuosaari) of the Helsinki Metro.

Toimii

Toimii (Finnish "It works") is an ensemble for new music founded in the spring of 1980 by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg with several other young composers and instrumentalists connected with the Sibelius Academy.

Varissuo

The suburb was constructed from scratch on an area of previously uninhabited wetland (suo in Finnish) starting in the mid-1970s as migration from rural areas to the city increased heavily in volume.

Vuosaari metro station

Vuosaari (Finnish) or Nordsjö (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the southern branch (Itäkeskus - Vuosaari) of the Helsinki Metro.

Yxsmedsgränd

The name can arguably be of Estonian or Finnish origin, originally meaning öitsi-mees, "night watchman" (e.g. over cattle).