Hi and welcome back to my channel. My name is Emma. I'm from Finland. I'm currently in Australia. I lived in Ireland for 12 years so that's why I have a weird accent probably. Anyway, I thought in this video we could actually... Sorry, I have my notes here so this video is about what countries sound like in Finnish or what countries are called in Finnish. Well, some countries, not all of them. I wanted to share the weirdness and the uniqueness of the Finnish language with you and I thought this is a great... So I thought this is a great example of that, basically. As you will see throughout this video that some of the country names are totally different in Finnish, what they are in the original language or however you may know the country by what they are called. So let's get right into the video. Let's start off with Finland. Finland in Finnish is Suomi, which you may already know. And the origins of the word Suomi, I mean there is a lot of debate and different studies and theories of where it came from. You know, one of those beliefs are that it came from the word Suol, which means swamp in Finnish because at the beginning of time Finland was kind of swampy. But there are, you know, other theories out there of why Finland is called Suomi. But yeah, Finnish person in Finnish is Suomalainen or in plural it would be Suomalaiset. In Estonia, which Estonian language is kind of close to Finnish and Finland is called Suomi. Hello, what do you prefer to my video? Oh, in this here. Why is Finland then called Finland in other countries? So also there is no, you know, fact answer to this. But I could find some theories that it actually becomes from Swedish. They found some, you know, papers from the 13th century they had called Finland Finlandi. So I don't know if that's how you pronounce it but anyway. So that's why it was called that I guess in the other languages as well. This is just my little disclaimer, dash, whatever I say in this video, it may not be a fact. What? I don't know. Anyway. And then if we go to the east of Finland we have Russia and Russia in Finnish is Vena. And Russian, you know, person, what Russian is called Vena Lainen or Vena Laiset in plural. Oh, in the issue of kukumia. So apparently the word Venaia came from a word Vennit which is Germanic origin. And surprisingly, or not that surprisingly, Venaia in Estonian is Vennema. So yeah, obviously Russia is more known in other languages. That's Rusland or I don't really know how it's pronounced. I don't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, if we go to the east, no, west. I don't know where we're going. If we go to the west of Finland we have our other neighboring countries. Sweden and Sweden in Finnish is Rootsie. So Sweden in Finnish is Rootsie. I could not really find definite answers of why it's actually called Rootsie, whatever I say in this video, it may not be a fact. And then we have Norway and Norway in Finnish is Norway. And Norway in Norwegian is Norway. And I think the Finnish version comes from the Swedish pronunciation of Norway which is Norway. So yeah, that's kind of pretty similar. Okay, so let's move to other countries then that are not sharing the border with Finland. Denmark in Finnish is Danska. And I think that this may come from the word Dansk which is the Danish language. And yeah, I think Finnish people just replace the D with the T because we don't have original words starting with the D because it's not really part of the alphabet, you know. Obviously then we have Estonia and Estonia in Finnish is called Viru. And what I could find some information about this is that it may have come the word Viruma. I don't know if this was actually what Estonia was originally called but yeah, it's also known as stash but officially it's Viru. And then we have Germany and Germany in Finnish is called Saksa. So apparently this comes from the word Sysers in Finnish I think. Saksi. So I couldn't really find information about, you know, why Saksa apart from the Saksimad, you know, the Sysers land. But apparently why Germany has so many different names in different languages is because of the central location. France is Danska in Finnish. And I think this may just be that basically Finnish people just drop the F, you know, F is not really part of the Finnish alphabet. So basically BCFQXZ and the Swedish O they're not like Finnish letters. We don't use them in like Finnish original words. Yeah, back to France as I was saying that I think Finnish people just drop the F and then it became Danska. French people are called Ranska Linen or Ranska Lyset and actually French fries in Finnish is French people, Ranska Lyset. So we are eating the French people. Austria is Itavaldak and what that means directly translated is Itav is East and Waldorf is power. And apparently this comes from the German word which is Austria again, sorry about pronunciation which means East realm realm. I don't know. Yeah. The Netherlands is Alangomad and I think this is just a direct translation because the Netherlands means low lying region and in Finnish like low or below is Alangomad. So Switzerland is Switzerland. I kind of don't know why it's still similar to the original. So Poland is Poland. So I think it's still similar but with the kind of like the Finnish element. All the land ending countries like Ireland, England, Iceland are Irlandi, Englundi, islundi. So you kind of get the idea there and they just all end in like Lundi. Yeah, we just kind of made those more Finnish. I guess Australia is Australia. So it's pretty similar but it's just with the double A at the second A of the word. America or the United States of America is America or Ujduzfallat. And Ujduzfallat is just like United States basically direct translation. In the spoken language we just kind of refer to America as Jänkit. Jänkis, Olin Jänkis, I went to the Jänkitland. Something like that. China is Gina and again I think because we don't use C or C-H. So yeah, I kind of make sense that it would just be pronounced like with the K instead of the sound or the C-H, whatever. Yeah, Gina. I think this makes sense. So you know the people who kind of decided about what different countries are called in Finnish. It was important that Finnish people would be able to pronounce them. And you know like I mentioned those letters B-C-F-Q-X-Z and the Swedish O are not really part of Finnish language in a way. So yeah, they wanted those words to be basically written how Finnish people could say them. Because at the time like in the 1800s it was believed that at the time this could really impact the desire to learn if the countries were in their original form. These days they are trying to limit the Finnishization of these different names of countries and cities and so on. And they are like different I guess governing bodies like the UN that kind of puts the rules in place of like with different places are called, you know, because they just want to reduce the confusion between different places like Gell, Cologne, you know, that's quite different. So we're Gothenburg, you're at the body, you know. This topic could obviously go on for ages because you know it's language. So, but this is just to give you an idea of like what different countries sound like in Finnish and what they're called in Finnish. So yeah. Yeah, thanks so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it and you learned something new. And yeah, I will see you in the next video. 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