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+CGP Grey Veldig søt, tusen takk! But seriously, Finland is the true oddball here. Its language is one of only four in Europe that does NOT share the Proto-Indo-European roots that almost every country West of China (exception, Africa and the Middle East) does. Finnish, Latvia, Hungarian, and Basque are the four oddballs and, bizzarrely, they share certain features between them in their word structures. The real gem to unearth here is: how the hell did those four peoples keep their languages intact when each is surrounded by PIE language-speakers? And ... which was their ancient tongue, and from where?
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