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    Finnish is NOT Germanic!
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    Author: * Erik Blodoks - 4 Posts on this thread out of 5 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Dec 21, 2003 - 12:59

    I noticed that the Finnish names "Karjalainen" and "Virtanen" are for some odd reason blended in with Germanic family names. Why is that? Finnish is a language belonging to the Finnish-Ugrian language group and is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY different from the Germanic languages. Finnish and other languages in its family group are not Indo-European, as opposed to the Germanic languages. Besides, the Finns themselves have a completely different history and origin than that of the Germanic peoples and were originally not at all related to the Germanics. However, because Finns and Swedes and Norwegians started to get children with each other the Finns got Germanic traits and were sort of assimilated into the Germanic groups more, but not totally. You can still destinguish Finns from germanic people.

    Please just give those who have the family names "Karjalainen" and "Virtanen" correct Germanic names, in order to make things more authentic. Thank you.

    Erik


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