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I don't think they decided that, they included Finish which is completely unrelated to the other nordic languages. If they just picked languages that are relate
by frodo8sam 2y ago
I don't think they decided that, they included Finish which is completely unrelated to the other nordic languages. If they just picked languages that are related for cross learning including Dutch or German would have made more sense indeed.
- coffeebeqn 2y agoThe root is unrelated but Finnish has certainly been shaped by Swedish and Russian and most recently English languages in the last 200 years
- Jensson 2y agoIncluding Finnish was probably just a political choice, since Finland and Sweden are very close politically, much closer than Germany or other areas with more similar languages.
- Asraelite 2y agoThis was done by a Finnish company and university. They would've included Finnish even without any political motivation.
- chymist 2y agoThe company is based in Finland, they started with Finnish
- frodo8sam 2y agoI understand, not saying they did something wrong just pointing out the selection of languages was not because of them belonging to the same family but rather to serve a certain region.