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"Excuse me" Chechen: Dukha vekhil for a male Dukha yekhil for a female "Live for a long time" Dela reze hiyla "Thank you"; literally means "I wish God will bless you" Croatian: Nazdravlje or Istina! "To your health" or "Truth!" Hvala "Thank you" Czech: Na zdraví. Pozdrav Pánbůh or Je to pravda "To your health" "Bless God" or "It is true" Ať ...
Livvi-Karelian [6] (Alternate names: Liygi, Livvi, Livvikovian, Olonets, Southern Olonetsian, Karelian; Russian: ливвиковское наречие, romanized: livvikovskoye narechiye) [6] [7] is a supradialect of Karelian, which is a Finnic language of the Uralic family, [8] spoken by Olonets Karelians (self-appellation livvi, livgilaizet), traditionally inhabiting the area between ...
It is used in a similar fashion to Oh my God/God help (me)! In Finnish it has the same slightly frustrated emphasis. Another translation for Oh, God is Voi luoja (luoja = the creator, a synonym for God). An ad campaign for church aid for third world countries used JumalAuta as an eyecatcher. This raised discussion for being too profane.
The phonology of Ingrian Finnish is very much alike that of the neighbouring Ingrian and Votic languages.. One process present in the dialects is the deletion of final front vowels and their replacement by palatisation, much like in Ala-Laukaa Ingrian and Votic: [4]
Swedish is the main language of 5.2% of the population in 2022 [3] (92.4% in the Åland autonomous province), down from 14% at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2012, 44% of Finnish citizens with another registered primary language than Swedish could hold a conversation in this language. [4]
Kotus is located at Hakaniemenkatu 2 in Hakaniemi, Helsinki.. The Institute for the Languages of Finland, [a] better known as Kotus, is a governmental linguistic research institute of Finland geared to studies of Finnish, Swedish (cf. Finland Swedish), the Sami languages, Romani language, as well as Finnish Sign Language and Finland-Swedish Sign Language.
Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish [1] (Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) [2] is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 ...
Colloquial or spoken Finnish (suomen puhekieli) is the unstandardized spoken variety of the Finnish language, in contrast with the standardized form of the language (yleiskieli). It is used primarily in personal communication and varies somewhat between the different dialects .