The gist of this post was that the North Karelian dialect of the Karelian language is almost the same as Finnish. The South Karelian dialect has more sibilants from what I can tell from the videos and somewhat more in the way of unfamiliar words.
Meänkieli is spoken in the Torne river valley on the Swedish side. It's nearly the same as the dialect on the other side of the river but with many more Swedish loan words.
Kven is based on the Finnish spoken by immigrants in th 18th and the 19th centuries. Very close and nearly mutually intelligible. Since then, Standard Finnish has resulted from extensive work and the two have become more distant. In region of origin of the Kven people, modern Finns speak differently from today's Kven people.
Sanonta kuuluu: "Se on täyttää hepreaa minulle."
Hebrew is our "Greek". :D
The gist of this post was that the North Karelian dialect of the Karelian language is almost the same as Finnish. The South Karelian dialect has more sibilants from what I can tell from the videos and somewhat more in the way of unfamiliar words.
Meänkieli is spoken in the Torne river valley on the Swedish side. It's nearly the same as the dialect on the other side of the river but with many more Swedish loan words.
Kven is based on the Finnish spoken by immigrants in th 18th and the 19th centuries. Very close and nearly mutually intelligible. Since then, Standard Finnish has resulted from extensive work and the two have become more distant. In region of origin of the Kven people, modern Finns speak differently from today's Kven people.