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Languages Most Similar to Finnish
Can you guess which languages have the highest level of similarity to Finnish (in written form)? Good luck!
Only includes languages which are official in at least one country.
Source: elinguistics.net.
Index on a 0 to 100 scale with lower numbers indicating higher similarity.
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Last updated: November 20, 2022
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Level 10-19 belongs to Finnic sub-branch in Uralic family, which has had small (now some of them endangered or even died) languages like Karelian, Vepsian, (which both are in eLinguistics application), Votic, Livonian. Vienan Karelian is mutually intelligble with Finnish, Votic is very interesting language in-between Finnish and Estonian. Livonian can easily be noticed as related, but without prior learning only some words are recognizable for Finnish speaker.
Level 60+ here is for distantly related languages. Probably the closest of distant relatives is Mordvin (Erzyan and Moksha), which feel for me as a Finnish speaker quite familiar compared to Hungarian and Samoyedic languages (like Nenets). eLinguistics index for Finnish and Nenets similarity is 51.2.
These are the borders of language family, at least what linguistics can tell. I would say that Uralic and Turkic languages are not related.
About Finnish and Nenets, it is interesting that index in eLinguistics shows closer similarity than between Finnish and for example Mari, which genetically (historically) have much closer relation. This again shows that modern similarity and genetic relation are correlated, but not with coefficient 1. Loan words and sound changes affect the similarity in vocabulary.
Whatever, thank you very much for the interest that you shows for this quiz series!