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[scriver]

Förgrymmmade, fjompiga fjord-fjuniga fjantiga fjolla!

You and yer hard to pronounce things.   Like Fjords.  How does one even make a fj sound.

"Fjord" is of Norse origin, not Finno-Ugric :v

I'm an american, my ignorance is allowed due to being the ones who invented Resses cups.

An amusing story, the Finno-Urgic languages. It is spoken by the Finns, the Estonians and the Hungarians (oddly enough). Believe you me, I rather like it, but I simply cannot dechypher Finnish, and Hungarian is a hopeless struggle from the start.

An illustration of languages in Europe, starring balls:

Caution! Big Image!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Of course, there's a bunch of fenno-uric languages outside /on the border of Europe. And don't forget the Sami and Komi and those languages too.

[Digital Hellhound]

Finnish hasn't actualy had a full written dictionary of words until rather recently, too. The finno-ugric language branch has always been very mysterious, to the point nobody can definitely point the actual origin for it. To this day, the language spoken in some parts of finland is still really hard to understand even for the finnish themselves, like in some parts of Savo, supposedly.

Err... the Finnish written language started being codified in the 16th century, and the first dictionaries are from the 17th century. We appear to have radically different interpretations of 'rather recently'. Written Finnish was neglected, of course - the Swedish-speaking elites and government tyranny saw no reason to encourage the peasant rabble's common tongue.

The Savo dialect is about as difficult as any rural dialect in any language. I can't really say for the mysteriousness of Finno-Ugric - AFAIK it originated from out there in the direction of Siberia, as evidenced by the lots of Finno-Ugric minority languages in what's now Russia.

Why the Hungarians wandered off so far south is a mystery. The languages are not very similar anymore to the layman. They must be so lonely.

Dont be silly. Finland (and Norway to an extent) are populated with nordic superhumans. Things like "the cold" are easily defeated with a suitable beverage for them. ;P

/joke

What do you mean, 'joke'? It's just the truth. I'm not sure why you specified 'Finland and Norway', but I rather like you left Sweden out of this grouping.

Förgrymmmade, fjompiga fjord-fjuniga fjantiga fjolla!

An illustration of languages in Europe, starring balls:
-snip-

Vesihiisi sihisi hississä right back atcha, buddy.

Is that Basque among the Romances? Basque is the real mystery of European languages - it's not related to any other living languages in Europe or beyond. How did it end up there and survive for so long? Where did it come from? What are they hiding from us?

[ChairmanPoo]

As far as I can figure out Basqueball is saying something (in very broken Basque) "hi, there is no other language so stupidly hard to understand".

As I said, it's pretty broken and I'm not very fluent to begin with (I'm somewhat alienated -culturally speaking-, something I've come to regret in the last few years) so it's inaccurate'ish, but I think it's not off the writer's intrntion

[itisnotlogical]

I wish I knew more European history pre-WWI. Right now I'm hearing the story of America's involvement in World War 2 for like the fourth time, just counting formal education, and its like uuugh something else please

That said, even missing 90% of the jokes, I still find Polandball hilarious.

[scriver]

As far as I know the Hungarians ended up there because the ugric Magyar was either subjugated and/or displaced by the Huns and migrated en masse southwards and eventually settled in that area. But I base my knowledge of the time largely on vidya games, so my sources is silly.

Also Basque isn't marked as a Romance area, it's as green as Wales.

As far as I can figure out Basqueball is saying something (in very broken Basque) "hi, there is no other language so stupidly hard to understand".

As I said, it's pretty broken and I'm not very fluent to begin with (I'm somewhat alienated -culturally speaking-, something I've come to regret in the last few years) so it's inaccurate'ish, but I think it's not off the writer's intrntion

Boo! Keep the language alive! Raven! Oak! Redhats!

[Reelya]

Finnish hasn't actualy had a full written dictionary of words until rather recently, too. The finno-ugric language branch has always been very mysterious, to the point nobody can definitely point the actual origin for it. To this day, the language spoken in some parts of finland is still really hard to understand even for the finnish themselves, like in some parts of Savo, supposedly.

English speakers from the remote rural parts are frikkin hard for English speakers to understand. I think that's more of a widespread thing than you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis

[ChairmanPoo]

That's universal for all languages. I can barely understand Andalusians speaking quickly

[Yoink]

Somehow after an entire day sitting around, eating semi-junk food and trying not to die of boredom, I am do 1AM stuff. 

[Reelya]

I want to sit on a lartle thriliged steel too now, after rewatching the video.

[smjjames]

And there's Basque, that wierd isolate which isn't even on the Indo-European branch, or any other known surviving branch. Rather, it's believed to be the only survivor of a language branch that existed in Europe before the Indo-European branch(es) took over.

[MrRoboto75]

I wish I knew more European history pre-WWI. Right now I'm hearing the story of America's involvement in World War 2 for like the fourth time, just counting formal education, and its like uuugh something else please

That said, even missing 90% of the jokes, I still find Polandball hilarious.

Play some Paradox games or something

[wierd]

And there's Basque, that wierd isolate which isn't even on the Indo-European branch, or any other known surviving branch. Rather, it's believed to be the only survivor of a language branch that existed in Europe before the Indo-European branch(es) took over.

Leave me out of this! I am not responsible for Basque languages!

[Reelya]

I wish I knew more European history pre-WWI. Right now I'm hearing the story of America's involvement in World War 2 for like the fourth time, just counting formal education, and its like uuugh something else please

That said, even missing 90% of the jokes, I still find Polandball hilarious.

Play some Paradox games or something

Hetalia is a better source of European history.

[scriver]

Total War and Paradox titles. The sources of 98% of my historical knowledge.

[Sergarr]

Why the Hungarians wandered off so far south is a mystery.

They were simply too awesome to stay in one place.

Total War and Paradox titles. The sources of 98% of my historical knowledge.

It's certainly 98% of my geographic knowledge.