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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 fr
by sriku 6y ago
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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_H%C3%A4meenniemi
- yencabulator 6y agoAs 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.