Making FINNISH Great Again - Purifying Finnish

Interesting video. Should we "purify" Finnish from only modern Swedish loans - however you define that... :) Good that you refererred Old Norse. "Laki" 'law' is said to be from Old Swedish "lagh". Is that safe enough? By the way, "kuvastin" was used sometimes for 'mirror'; it's derived from "kuva" 'picture; image', itself a Germanic loan, if I'm not mistaken. The successor of the Germanic original in Swedish is "skugga" 'shadow'. And "aukko" could be connected to "avata" 'to open'. At least we have "appi" 'father-in-law', "niellä" 'to swallow' and "kusi" 'piss' left.

Very good and informative video ! Shows the history, interactions of people and how the languages evolve in time . I talked about these topics with some of my friends living in Finland.

Many swedish people has finnish blood in ancesters. Have you check history of Forest Finns (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogsfinnar)? There is also one place in central Sweden only in Finnish name? https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppikoski

You're "cracking to code" :D There's more into it. The Finnish language developed when the most of Northern Europe was covered in Ice.

This is all interesting but nonetheless speculation since there is no concrete evidense of most of this.

what made u intrested in finnish-finnish is so diffrent from english and english is similar to swedish finnish has to be tough so what was your motivation?

"The Uralic family of languages, of which Finnish is a member, are hypothesized to derive from a single ancestor language termed Proto-Uralic, spoken sometime between 8,000 and 2,000 BCE (estimates vary) in the vicinity of the Ural mountains." - Wikipedia I can't really understand what you mean with this "Purifying Finnish" thing, mate. All languages adopt new words, but that doesn't mean that they did not have words for those things already. For me purifying would mean something like going back to the roots of the language. So even tough Swedes and Finns are brothers, the roots of are languages are from very different place and tribes.

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Generally those people who want to get rid of the Swedish loanwords and "finnify" them, are those who just hate that they were obliged to learn Swedish in school. They have basically no knowlidge of languages in general nor even the roots of their own language Finnish. So basically they would be fine with just Finglish (the combination of Finnish and English), because English is the language they chose to learn. Personally I do think that mandatory Swedish language is quite obsolete nowadays, but I really appreciate every single of those 8 years I spent learning Swedish. I don't know if I had chosen to, but I am grateful that I did. And I have to say that I love languages. Most of all of them I love this very beautiful language of mine, Finnish. So if anyone can actually "finnify" those loanwords of any language, I'm all for it. But I don't concider as "finnifying" those new words that are just loans from another language. Lastly, is "finnifying" even a real word?