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	Finnish language
		Finnish is spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in Finland; there are small Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Estonia; in addition, a few hundred thousand immigrated Finns live in Sweden, and also in North America remains communities of Finnish speaking immigrants.
		Finnish is an agglutinative language and an inflected language which modifies both noun and verb forms depending on their role in the sentence.
		The Finnish alphabet consists of 29 letters, which includes the 26 latin letters used in English, as well as Å (A with a ring above), Ä (A with two dots above) and Ö (O with two dots above) which are treated as distinct letters and follow Z in the alphabetical order.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Finnish_language.html (1561 words)

	The Languages of Tolkien -&--&- The World of Tolkien
		Finnish is an agglutinative language and a synthetic language which modifies both noun and verb forms depending on their role in the sentence.
		Finnish is spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in Finland; there are small Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Estonia; in addition, a few hundred thousand emigrated Finns live in Sweden, and also in North America there remain communities of Finnish speaking emigrants, notably in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		The Finnish linguistic situation is to some extent comparable to that of much of the Arabic speaking world, where Classical Arabic is used in official and religious speech and in the literature, whereas colloquial forms of Arabic are used in everyday conversation and in personal letters.
	www.freewebs.com /tolkienmaster/finnishlanguageandthekal.htm (2752 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Spelling and Literacy in Finnish.
		Consonantal gradation in Finnish and English is explained, and its implications for spelling are discussed, as are the different reactions of Finnish and English speakers to the resulting alteration of words.
		The Finnish syllable is usually the first step in the phoneme analysis of the language, it is the examination of the frame of the language, and - note this - it only applies to the 'book language'.
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugrian group of languages, and has little in common with the Indo-European languages (which comprise the great majority of European languages), the appearance of which is more familiar to us.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j25/finnish.php (4595 words)

	Finnish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically an agglutinative language.
		Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
		The Finnish orthography is morphemic, and the morphemic notation is built upon the phonetic principle: with just a few subtle exceptions, within a single morpheme, each phoneme (distinct sound) of the language is represented by exactly one grapheme (independent letter), and each grapheme represents exactly one phoneme, if the morpheme is pronounced in isolation.
	www.school-explorer.com /Finnish (5937 words)

	Prosodies in Finnish. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A study describing Finnish phonetics and analyzing prosodic properties is reported.
		Data were drawn from two sources: a conversation between the two, in which one described a picture so the other could draw it, and one a set of stories narrated by the informants based on a series of connected pictures.
		It is concluded that a phonological statement can be made that takes into consideration phonetic characteristics that are considered irrelevant in most phonologies.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b80123e95.html (101 words)

	Finnish pronunciation
		Pronunciation of Finnish in a nutshell (for linguists)
		Originally the Finnish language lacked B, D, and G sounds (but D was, somewhat artificially, introduced in the 18th or 19th century), and there was no need to pronounce e.g.
		Similarly, since Finnish lacks a genuine distinction between S, SH, and Z, the S sound is not very sharp, and you might even hear it as something that is closer to SH than S, and it might also be slightly voiced, i.e.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/finnish.pronunciation.html (1434 words)

	The relationship between the Finnish and the Hungarian languages
		He was, however, very pleased to discover this word in Finnish: l a a t i k k o (box), with the same meaning as the Hungarian l á d i k ó.
		A Finnish tourist was very disappointed when he was told that the Finnish word t a r k k a (accurate) has a different meaning from the Hungarian t a r k a (motley).
		One of the phonetical similarities between Hungarian and Finnish is vowel harmony, met both in Finno-Ugric and Ural-Altaic languages.
	www.angelfire.com /oh2/manowar/hunfinn.htm (1681 words)

	Are High Elves Finno-Ugric?
		Finnish influence does indeed seem strong in the earliest forms of the language, at least in vocabulary, where many words are Finnish in style.
		Phonetics and phonology - the sounds of a language and the system they form - were important to Tolkien, who most of all wanted his languages to sound beautiful.
		Finnish verbs are inflected according to the subject of the sentence, and a pronoun can often be omitted, but I think there are other languages that are closer to Quenya in this respect.
	www.sci.fi /~alboin/finn_que.htm (2838 words)

	FINNS: Uralic Languge Family
		Finnish, with 5.1 million speakers, and Estonian, with 1.1 million, are the largest groups of the Baltic-Finnic languages.
		Finnish is famous for its many cases, 12 of which are productive--ie.
		Finnish and Estonian texts survive from the Protestant Reformation, which swept over Scandinavia and much of the Baltic in the 16th century; the reformer of the Finns, Michael Agricola (1512-57), also translated the Bible into Finnish.
	uralica.com /langclas.htm (1611 words)

	LING 101: Phonology
		Though the phonetic alphabet is universal (we can write down the speech sounds actually uttered in any language), the phonemic alphabet varies from language to language.
		In Finnish, /t/ is pronounced as [t] and /d/ is pronounced as [d].
		Assume that these words and their phonetic sequences are representative of what may occur in Hebrew.
	www.ling.udel.edu /idsardi/101/notes/phonology.html (3188 words)

	UCSB Linguistics People
		I remember in high school learning Finnish on my own and being fascinated by its linguistic structures, which were so different from those found in any of the languages I had studied in school.
		The focus of my research is on phonetics, the study of speech sounds, and phonology, the study of the organization of sound in linguistic systems.
		A phonetic and phonological study of word-level stress in Chickasaw, 2004, International Journal of American Linguistics 70, 1-32.
	www.linguistics.ucsb.edu /people/gordon.html (332 words)

	Opera Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen).
		Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi
		The user is asked to supply a Finnish noun (it may even be a loanword), and the program will supply all its declensional forms.
	portal.opera.com /web/?cat=132962 (444 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finnish military rule in White Sea Karelia during the Continuation War meant the erection of concentration camps, and the internment and eventual death of many Russians, communists, and other "undesirables", a large number of them children.
		Finnish architecture has won international fame; it is represented by people such as Eliel Saarinen (and his son Eero Saarinen, who worked chiefly in North America) Wivi Lönn (1872-1966), and Lars Sonck (1870-1956) who were pioneers of the national romantic style.
		The first known Finnish author was Jöns Budde, a Franciscan monk who lived in the Brigittene monastery at Naantali in the latter part of 15th century, chiefly translating from Latin to Swedish, but he also wrote a few things of his own.
	archive.cs.uu.nl /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND (17101 words)

	The meister's singers
		Applied phonetics: German scholar moonlights as diction coach for the L.A. Opera.
		Born in Freitel, Germany, Schnauber studied phonetics and German literature in East Germany.
		He came to USC in 1968 - after teaching at the University of Hamburg's Phonetics Institute and later at the University of North Dakota.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/1463.html (1300 words)

	Talk:Finnish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The section on orthography and the history of Finnish spelling is fascinating, but it does not really belong in a main language article; it should be merged/moved elsewhere, maybe to Finnish alphabet or Finnish orthography.
		Finnish in the Tornedalian area has lost most of these areas, that is very true - but Meänkieli is hardly to blame for this.
		Finnish is usually not the second, or even the third, but just a "hobby" language for many people interested in linguistics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Finnish_language (7682 words)

	Finland Forum - How Finnish sounds for the foreign people?
		Finnish sounds absolutley beautiful to me.The Y sound is pretty easy for me.All the sounds come natturally,and the grammer makes sence.It's even more beautiful sung!By no means is your lanuage ugly.
		The only difference is that the Finnish Yy is MUCH more rounded than the relatively relaxed English Y sound, and the same applies to the ö.
		As our brains have been schooled from the womb to hear the vowels in the finnish way so they've been wired in such a fashion that in our ears the difference is quite distinct.
	www.finlandforum.org /bb/viewtopic.php?p=157495 (1248 words)

	Finnisch Lehrbücher
		Atkinson: Finnish Grammar (Helsinki, 1956) A course in Finnish grammar for the learner.
		Conversational Finnish in video (Helsinki/Tallinn 1992) This is the first attempt to produce an audiovisual course in Finnish.
		This makes the book useful for those who want to consolidate their knowledge of Finnish by seeing how the whole lanmguage woorks as a system as well as for those who don't want to learn Finnish at all, but are curious about its structure.
	www.obh.snafu.de /~rakkaus/suomi/finbooks.html (3141 words)

	Linguist List - Dissertation Abstracts
		The most obvious common phonetic feature may be the linguistically distinctive quantity in both vowels and consonants.
		In addition, I conducted perception tests on the Finnish /(C)VnC1(C1)V/ structure with the Japanese speakers, and compared the durational ratios of the nasal consonant in the /CV-n/N-C1(C1)V/ structure both in isolation and a sentence.
		The duration of the Japanese /h/ was longer than in Finnish, but the durations of /h + V/ were similar in both languages.
	linguistlist.org /pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=8736 (326 words)

	Phonetics of Finnish: Organization principles
		The published books concerned with the phonetics of different languages vary in their structural organization.
		Although there are practical grounds for these principles of organization (and their variants), one loses the natural connection with the linguistic system and with those functional factors that generally cause phonetic phenomena.
		Only language-specifically important phonetic issues are discussed, but they are compared with other languages in a contrastive sense and typological aspects are shown.
	www.helsinki.fi /puhetieteet/projektit/Finnish_Phonetics/jasentelyperiaatteet_eng.htm (368 words)

	AKUSTYK for Praat
		Reijo Aulanko, Hanna Anttila and Rina Pitkänen, Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki
		Traditional descriptions often include rising diphthongs such as [je], [ja], [wo], and [wa] or even triphthongs such as [jaw] and [waj], but many researchers now consider prenuclear glides to be part of the syllabic onset in Mandarin Chinese.
		Akustyk's support of Finnish includes the following diphthongs (in addition to the 16 monophthongal vowels): asi, ei, oi, ui, aei, o/i, yi, asu, ou, eu, iu, aey, o/y, ey, iy, ie, uo, yo/.
	bartus.org /akustyk/vowel_systems.html (327 words)

	Wired 7.09: Just Say Nokia
		In the last couple of years, Finnish teenagers have quit referring to mobile phones as jupinalle - "yuppie teddy bears" - and started calling them kännykkä or känny, a Nokia trademark that passed into generic parlance and means an extension of the hand.
		With a Finnish weakness for assonance, Nokia president Pekka Ala-Pietilä calls his company's readiness to adapt to local conditions "selecting horses for courses." As digital cellular breaks into markets like Russia and China, where fixed-line phone service never gained a foothold, the company from nowhere is galloping everywhere.
		Distrust of authority is deeply inscribed in the Finnish character - not surprising, perhaps, for a country that figured out how to maintain its national identity through periods of Swedish and Russian rule, working out an intricate dance of autonomy with the Communist bear for most of this century.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/7.09/nokia_pr.html (7729 words)

	University of Leeds - Department of Linguistics and Phonetics - Publications and Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds.
		Case and adverbials in Finnish and Inari Sami.
		(with Virve Vihman) The interpretation of implicit arguments in Estonian and Finnish.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /linguistics/staff/diane/pubs.html (1159 words)

	LotR Fanatics Library \| Quenya Phonology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It does not allow more than two consonants in a row and neither does it allow a long vowel before a consonant cluster Typically, Quenya words end in vowels, such as in quessë, namárië, laurëa, alassë.
		Quenya was based on Finnish, which Tolkien said he found to be the most beautiful language to his own taste.
		Finnish, French and Russian do not aspirate these consonants.
	www.lotrlibrary.com /languages/quenyaphonology.asp (786 words)

	Writing Finnish in Tengwar
		This page is a summary of the Finnish document Suomen kirjoittaminen tengwarilla.
		The pronunciation information is from the site Phonetics of Finnish.
		For other new Tengwar modes (including ones for Finnish), see the section Modern Tengwar Modes in the link page at Amanye Tenceli.
	www.sci.fi /~alboin/finnishtengwar.htm (148 words)

	Old Scandinavian (Old Norse) language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Another source for studies is the vocabulary of Finnish words borrowed from Old Norse.
		The Germanic *-z in the endings of nouns was preserved as the sound R under the law of rhotacism.
		Contacted with Finnish and Saami languages in the north, and with other Germanic languages in the south.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/germ/norse.html (370 words)

	Faculty of Humanities - Courses in the Department of German and Nordic languages
		Various aspects of Finnish culture, history of Finland and Finnish society will be discussed during the course.
		The thesis is written in consultation with the student's supervisor.
		Comparison of selected topics of Icelandic and German (like phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics) that are selected co-operatively with the students.
	www.hi.is /prog/catalogue/german.html (8545 words)

	List of phonetics resources
		This is a list of web sites that could be appropriate for use in an introductory phonetics course.
		The list includes a number of items from the list of phonetics sites compiled by Karen Steffen Chung (see LINGUIST List posts 11.1812, 11.1869, and 11.1964).
		British English: "English phonetics and phonology for non-native speakers," by David Brett, University of Sassari
	www.unc.edu /~jlsmith/pht-url.html (1947 words)

	viewpoint » animanga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One exam is Finnish Phonetics, the other English.
		The thing is, I haven’t attended the Finnish Phonetics lectures for a month.
		I do have the notes for the lectures - the good thing about the lecturer is that she puts them online for the students - and I have the books the lectures are based on.
	log.kahavi.org /?cat=6 (417 words)

	LinkedIn: Mietta Lennes
		Researcher in Phonetics with substantial methodological skills, specializing in the study of Finnish conversational speech.
		A supportive and student-oriented teacher who feels at home in both the traditional phonetic laboratory and web-based learning environments.
		Finnish phonetics, phonetics of spontaneous speech and conversation, teaching phonetics, using the Praat program for speech analysis, Praat scripting, speech annotation, speech corpora
	www.linkedin.com /in/miettalennes (132 words)

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