Finnish and Estonian aren't Baltic. They are Uralic and have more in common with

Jul 5, 2024
10:09:45am

Lord Jim All-American

Asian languages. The reason why Finland and Estonia have a lot in common with the Scandinavian countries was because they were part of the Swedish empire for a long time and adopted a lot of their customs including Lutheranism

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Lord Jim

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POLL: When you think of Scandinavia you think

carlstud

Jul 5, 8:52am

“When I Think of Scandinavia” would make a great folk song title

SJS

Jul 5, 8:54am

My mother is Danish.....

TheHop

Jul 5, 8:54am

RE: POLL: When you think of Scandinavia you think

Lord Jim

Jul 5, 8:55am

I might be wrong, but I believe Iceland is Scandinavian as well to add to the to

UNLVcougar

Jul 5, 9:34am

Geographically it's outside of Scandinavia and linguistically it's a little

Lord Jim

Jul 5, 9:40am

When I was in Sweden, I was asking a woman in the ward about some places on the

UNLVcougar

Jul 5, 4:42pm

Yeah, so much so that the church had thousands of converts from Sweden and

Lord Jim

Jul 5, 5:20pm

That’s how Portuguese is, basically drunk Spanish.

Japan Coug

Jul 5, 5:23pm

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spinner

Jul 5, 10:28am

Anything with a big cross on its flag.

Niiineteeen84

Jul 5, 9:03am

Does that include England?

krindorr

Jul 5, 9:13am

Not a cross. That's centered.

Niiineteeen84

Jul 5, 9:46am

Could've been if it wasn't for those darn Normans

Lord Jim

Jul 5, 9:49am

RE: POLL: When you think of Scandinavia you think

Plantagenet

Jul 5, 9:14am

Cold

Japan Coug

Jul 5, 9:15am

Just for those who have answered Finland in with Norway, Sweden, and Denmark,

specsauce

Jul 5, 10:05am

Finnish and Estonian aren't Baltic. They are Uralic and have more in common with

Lord Jim

Jul 5, 10:09am

True about Estonian; neither Finnish nor Estonian are Indo-European languages,

Japan Coug

Jul 5, 10:13am

vikings

qwerew

Jul 5, 10:38am

TIL the Norwegian Navy have started to put barcodes on their ships. So when they return to port they can Scandinavian.

greatbam

Jul 5, 10:44am

Pickled herring

BluebloodOR

Jul 5, 11:35am

Iceland is more Scandinavian than Finland

Odysseus

Jul 5, 12:07pm

+1. Iceland speaks a form of old Norse.

ebv

Jul 7, 7:25pm

Historically the upper class of Finland spoke Swedish though. Used to be about

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