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CD-ROM edition, Finnish Language Fiction. Excerpt: Asiain näin ollen ei vanhaa tukkimiestä kaikkien väijyjäin puolelta, jotka häntä silmillään seurasivat, uhannut sen suurempaa vaaraa, kuin mikä kimalti neljistä pienistä kirkkaista silmistä korkealta vanhan petäjän latvahaarasta. Pieneen salareikään oli sinne kuin lapsenkamarin ikkunaan ryhmittynyt neljä nuorta sileätä oravanpäätä, ja näitten mielenkiintoa sanomattomasti herätti se kumma eläin, joka niin raskaasti astua tömisteli heidän allaan. Jos ne olisivat olleet kyläkunnan oravia, niin ne epäilemättä olisivat huutaneet kimakoita huomautuksiaan, suoraan sanoen haukkuneet häntä, sillä orava harrastaa avomielistä puhetta. Mutta oleskellessaan aarniometsän asuinmailla oravakin oppii hillitsemään itsensä; ja jos nuori orava tässä ympäristössä olisi rupattanut kovalla äänellä vaikkapa omassa pesässään, niin olisi siitä voinut olla hyvinkin ratkaisevia seurauksia. Kun vanha tukkimies oli niiden näköpiiristä kadonnut, niin kaikki neljä päätä kat.... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tapio Rautavaara, Carola Standertskjöld, A. W. Yrjänä, Katri Ylander, Irwin Goodman, Janita, Kari Tapio, Fredi, Monica Aspelund, Ami Aspelund, Jaakko Löytty, Markku Aro, Hector, Olavi Virta, Jarkko Martikainen, Gösta Sundqvist, Eugen Malmstén, Aki Sirkesalo, Mathias Lillmåns, Chisu, Christian Forss, Sammy Babitzin, Kristina Hautala, Frederik, Laila Halme, Lea Laven. Excerpt:A. W. Yrjänä Aki Ville Yrjänä (born 30 July 1967 in Kemi ), better known by the stage name , A. W. Yrjänä (Finnish pronunciation: ), is a poet and the singer, bassist , and primary songwriter of the Finnish rock band CMX . In addition to his musical work he has published four collections of poems. Yrjänä also plays the guitar, and usually composes on the guitar rather than his primary instrument, the bass guitar . He can be heard playing the guitar on the occasional CMX song (such as "Hautalinnut" from Aion ), as well as on "Pop-musiikkia " by Neljä baritonia. He has produced Rautakantele and co-produced a number of other CMX albums as well as albums by other artists, such as Pohjannaula , Wilma and Little Mary Mixup. Yrjänä has studied theology and comparative religion , and his texts often contain strong mythological imagery. His symbolic texts are considered to be a major part of CMX's appeal, as well as a reason why some listeners can't stand the band's music. Yrjänä himself has said: "I've never tried to write cryptic text, but it seems I just think in a complicated manner." In 1997, Yrjänä wrote Silta Niilin yli that consisted of 18 songs for a seven-piece orchestra. It was performed on the Joensuun Laulujuhlat festival. He has also collaborated with Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Henrik Otto Donner in composing a musical piece for the celebration of the 150th birthday of the Finnish national epic Kalevala . ... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The breathy-voiced glottal transition, commonly called a voiced glottal fricative, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ?, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h. Although [?] has been described as a breathy-voiced counterpart of the following vowel because of its lack of place and manner of articulation in many languages, it may have glottal constriction in a number of languages (such as Finnish), making it a fricative. ... Read more

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Chapters: Russian Language, Estonian Language, Belarusian Language, Finnish Language, Estonian Grammar, Võro Language, Seto Language, Laiuse Romani. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 103. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Official language. Spoken by a minority. Finnish (·), or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a Finnish dialect spoken in Northern Norway, is an official minority language in Norway. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages which in turn is a member of the Uralic family of languages. The Baltic-Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with the Uralic languages in several respects including: Several theories exist as to the geographic origin of Finnish and the other Uralic languages, but the most widely held view is that they originated as a Proto-Uralic language somewhere in the boreal forest belt around the Ural Mountains region and/or the bend of the middle Volga. The strong case for Proto-Uralic is supported by common vocabulary with regularities in sound correspondences, as well as by the fact that the Uralic languages have many similarities in structure and grammar. The Finns are...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19984080 ... Read more

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Finno-Ugric is a group of languages in the Uralic language family, comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and related languages. It comprises the Finno-Permic and Ugric language families. The term Finno-Ugric is currently somewhat controversial, with many historical linguists feeling that the Finno-Permic languages are as distinct from the Ugric languages as they are from the Samoyedic languages spoken in Siberia. It was earlier thought that the geographically distant Samoyed had separated first, and the branching into Ugric and Finno-Permic took place later, but this does not have strong support in the linguistic data. ... Read more

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Chapters: Tapio Rautavaara, Vexi Salmi, Paavo Haavikko, Eino Leino, Paula Vesala, Reino Helismaa, Juha Vainio, Hannu Mäkelä. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Veikko Olavi "Vexi" Salmi (Finnish pronunciation: ; born 21 September 1942) is a Finnish lyricist. He has written the lyrics to numerous popular songs for several prominent artists, including Irwin Goodman, Jari Sillanpää, and Katri Helena. His career as a lyricist began in the 1960s, and continues to the present day. During his prolific career, he has written the lyrics for over 4,000 songs, more than 2,400 of which have been recorded. In addition to song lyrics, he has authored several novels and one collection of poetry. Salmi's recent work also includes collaborating with Ilkka Lipsanen on a 60th anniversary album, and he also acts as a judge in a television programme on music lyrics. Salmi was awarded the Juha Vainio Writer's Award in 1993 for his long and successful career as a lyricist. Another music writer's award, the Vexi Salmi Award, was named after him in 2003. Salmi was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland, on 21 September 1941. His father was a carpenter and his mother a factory worker. He was their second child, and his sister was five years older than him. Salmi's father died in 1951, after having begun construction on a house, leaving his wife to finish the project. At an early age, Salmi became friends with Antti Hammarberg. They grew up together on the same street, and while children, their first song together was "Humalamäki", a joking song they wrote about their neighbour. Hammarberg later changed his name to Irwin Goodman and became a popular Finnish folk and rock singer. Salmi wrote the lyrics for most of Goodman's compositions and acted as his manager, and their friendship...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25910393 ... Read more

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Sápmi (Area). Sami languages, Russian language, Norwegian language, Swedish language, Meänkieli, Kven language, Finnish language, Sami people, Russians, Norwegian people, Swedish people, Finns, Kven people, Sápmi football team, Sámi politics ... Read more

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CD-ROM Edition. Excerpt: Minäkin koetin ottaa siihen osaa niin paljon kuin suinkin voin. Vuorottelin palvelijani kanssa, sillä toisen meistä kumminkin täytyi aina olla kotona lasten luona. Täytyipä välistä molempienkin.Myöhäsenlaiseen pääsin juhlan ensimmäisenä päivänä kentälle, jossa laulu- ja soitto-ohjelma jo oli alkanut. Liehuvat liput, viheriät köynnökset ja kirjavat kukat, joilla kartanotkin olivat koristetut, saivat jo tiellä kaikki pienet, kotoiset arkihuolet haihtumaan mielestäni. Ja mitä enemmän laulukenttää lähenin, sitä valtavampi oli juhlan vaikutus. Mahtavat sävelet kaikuivat kauvas vastaani. ... Read more

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Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities. It is an Uralic language and is closely related to Finnish. One distinctive feature that has caused a great amount of interest in linguists is that Estonian has what is traditionally seen as three degrees of phoneme length: short, long, and "overlong", such that /toto/, /to?to/ and /to?to/ are distinct. In actuality, the distinction is not purely in the phoneme length, and the underlying phonological mechanism is still disputed. ... Read more

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Chapters: Finnish Grammar, Finnish Phonology, Spoken Finnish, Perkele, Finnish Exonyms for Places in Norway: Finnmark, Finnish Exonyms for Places in Norway: Troms, Helsinki Slang, Finnish Alphabet, Finnish Noun Cases, Karelian Language, Finglish, Finnish Verb Conjugation, Savonian Dialects, Meänkieli, Finnish Numerals, Finnish Phonotactics, Toponyms of Finland, Kven Language, Finland's Language Strife, Finnish Wikipedia, Sananmuunnos, Peräpohjola Dialects, Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish, Momentane, Rauma Dialect, the Finnish Institute in London, Iso Suomen Kielioppi, List of English Words of Finnish Origin, Se Wsi Testamenti, Finnish Locative System, Teppo, Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes, Evvk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 284. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is part of Finnish exonyms for places in Norway, a list of Finnish language names in Norway. It contains Finnish or Kven names from Finnmark county (Finnish: Ruija), that are officially recognised by the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. Kven is closely related to Finnish and was recognised as an official minority language of Norway in 2005. It is one of three official languages of Porsanger municipality in Finnmark. ...http://booksllc.net/?id=19480211 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rääkkylä is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 2,626 (31 December 2009) and covers an area of 699.69 square kilometres (270.15 sq mi) of which 271.98 km2 (105.01 sq mi) is water. The population density is 6.14 inhabitants per square kilometre (15.9 /sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality has previously also been known as "Bräkylä" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Rääkkylä" also in Swedish. ... Read more

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CD-ROM Edition For reading or research No illustrations, not an audio CD, not a DVD, produced in a Microsoft Word Compatible format for reading or research.About the Author:Eino Leino (July 6, 1878, Paltamo, Finland - January 10, 1926, Tuusula, Finland) was a Finnish poet and journalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. The style of much of his work is like the Kalevala and folk songs. Nature, love, and despair are frequent themes in Leino's work. He is beloved and widely read in Finland today. ... Read more

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Chapters: Swedish Language, Russian Language, Estonian Language, Finland Swedish, Finnish Language, Skolt Sami, Tatar Language, Sami Orthography, Karelian Language, Northern Sami, Sami Languages, Northern Sami Orthography, Inari Sami, Kemi Sami, Åland Swedish, Olonets Karelian Language, Finnish Sign Language, Languages of Åland, Kalo Finnish Romani Language, International English Speakers' Association of Finland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 177. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Official language. Spoken by a minority. Finnish (·), or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a Finnish dialect spoken in Northern Norway, is an official minority language in Norway. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. Finnish is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages which in turn is a member of the Uralic family of languages. The Baltic-Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with the Uralic languages in several respects including: Several theories exist as to the geographic origin of Finnish and the other Uralic languages, but the most widely held view is that they originated as a Proto-Uralic language somewhere in the boreal forest belt around the Ural Mountain...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19984080 ... Read more

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Finglish at its Finest
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