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Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou are saying you never read two vowels in a row?
No. I’m saying the ones which are umlauted don’t go with their umlauted partners. You can äiti easily. That’s mom. But you can’t have Äati. That’s not a word. Ä + a don’t go together.
I may be wrong because of how flexible Finnish is, but I don’t think a Finnish word exists where there is either äa oe öo combination. Äo maybe, but not likely.
Its something calmed vowel harmony, which is sort of why I don’t see Polish as being any where near Finnish. The amount of consonants you guys use is unnatural to a Finnish person.
Finnish pronunciation is definitely not a “subset of Polish”. Polish is a PIE-language. We’re not even in the same language tree bro.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What I mean by subset is: a Polish person will pronounce every finnish word correctly and a Finnish person will pronounce most of Polish words correctly.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m Finnish and I’ve had a Polish friend for 15 years and I can say you’re most definitely mistaken.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
for the sake of fun give me a sentence to pronounce
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.wiktionary.org/…/Appendix:Finnish_tongue_twist…