There was a common glue: old tatar language that affected all three finnic, estonian, and hungarian languages (also gaelic but in lesser rate). The voice duplicates were destroyed by the 1848-49 language renewal.

@@ZoltanHoppar So is that where Hungarians and Estonians and Finns come from? Central Asia?

I've been studying a bit Northern Sami and it would be really interesting to see how well Sami speakers of some of the 9 Sami languages understand each others. Also like Finnish, Karelian, Ingrian, Kven and Meänkieli.

Amharic again

@@garyn8316 Rather northern than central Eurasia, on both sides of the Ural mountains that are commonly defined as the border between Europe and Asia. Hence the term "Uralic" for this language family. In this area you can still find people that speak Uralic languages.

Yes, their sounding feels related to Hungarian, just some kind of 'less various vowels'. Mari, what is also Uralic language sounds even more similar to the Hungarian tone. It is also somewhat closer to Hungarian, though it is in the Finnic branch. (It also got Slavic and Turkic influence like Hungarian) The closest languages to Hungarian are Khanty and Mansi, we still wouldn"t understand them, but Hungarian share words with them what are almost exactly or exactly the same in pronunciation. I think it is possible to understand even few sentences if it contains the common vocabulary

Szia Eniko! De szivesen ott lettem volna, biztos nagy elmeny volt! Gratula!

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Hogy van az észtül: Enikő a legszebb magyar lány! How is it in Estonien: Enikő is the most beatifull Hungarian Girl!

Hi @@sectorgovernor , I am really interested in this topic, can I contatc you someway?

Amazaing, your words closer to the hungarian basic words, then to the estonian. It would be very interesting to make a comparison between hungarian and manshi - on paper the manshi is the closest relative of the hungarian…

Most Russians are Slavicized Finno-Ugric peoples. Some earlier, some later. The Moscow region, for example, are descendants of the Finno-Ugric tribe Merya.

@@AbcdEfgh-mw3njI have been travrling in USSR. Once in one of Moscower train station I saw one man, who look very asian. But his hair were blond a eyes blue. He probsbly was member of one of the finnic tribes, somewhere in north. But even some Russians look different than other slavs. Especially they"s noses are shorter and more round. I don't know if russian language has any finnic loan words. But for sure it has some words loan from kazakh language. Like sumka = bag.

Cool!!

Lets hope one day Russia will just let us figure out our roots without trying to cover it up to create their history. It's like they feel shame for being a young country and that they did what many other European countries did back in the days. When Soviet fell so much new information came out but then the curtain dropped again. Like central Sweden has the same 80% light colored eyes and hair as Finland and Estonia so you can assume its more common in the Finno ugric genes than indo european. Seen a lot of people from St Petersburg with blond hair and blue eyes and Russia is not the only one that has stolen our forefathers land. The time for "what is done is done" has to come at some point and just let our historians figure it out instead of just making up theories.

Greetings from hungary to the Polish people! ❤

Lovely Poland! :) Greetings from Hungary! :D

❤Polska❤

I am hungary🥺❤

Alright. As an Estonian, a native one, I am confused of how you can like Estonia. Sure, the landscape is pretty and it has quite a bit of history, but the people are so, so racist, homophobic and transphobic, so many of us are anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.Not so long ago there were some who wanted to 'free Estonia from it's corrupt leaders who are against human rights'. This was with the restrictions for those who refused to vaccine themselves and hadn't been through Covid-19. Obviously not everyone is like that but a very gddamn big part of us are. People here are awful. My very own parents are racist. I don't see much reasons to like Estonia but, you do you I guess. Also I hope that the world has been kind to you, and all the best wishes.

Love finland, Estonaa and Hungaria and Altaic-Uralic family from Turkey

​​@@Ozguryalnik "Altaic-Uralic" is not a thing, stop trying to mix us

Talv/talvi sounds very similar to the Hungarian "tél" (winter). Silmä is "szem" ("sz" letter is uttered as "s") in Hungarian. Basic words are remarkably similar.

If they put finnish guy in there as the third person in this video. He would like instantly in under one second know the word the estonian guy said, so it would become bit too easy.

@@hungarianspectator6847 Its very similar between finnish and estonian, while there is bit more diffrence with hungarian, so it sometimes gets bit difficult to get the word right.

The richest languages in the world are Spanish and Mandarin Chinese

@@ggl2947 nah

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what does it mean for a language to be rich?

Bro vot. The structure and operation of the language ..... a lot of words

@Berzsi 15 OMG😂😂Xddd

Thats kind:)

I like Romanian people, because we have a lot common things, like food, traditions, habits and I was a little bit jealous when a lot Romanian travelled back to Romania when you voted against corruption. Out of Romania and Hungary, when the political influence stops you guys are kind, hard workers, funny, helpful. we should be friends, if i need help i always knock on my neighbours door I hope, future makes it happen! tills you are cool people aswell (greeting from Hungary)

Mi sose

When I went to Romania with my hungarian license plate, they broke my windshield wiper >:(

"oh so you added the partitive case" - the Estonian _"Yeah" - the Hungarian_ My inner linguist was screaming as well, but perhaps for different reasons Context: *Hungarian doesn't have a partitive case*

Scandinavian history and culture has always been a big interest of mine and naturally so the Sami people and their language has intrigued me. It would be so great to see that 😍

The Estonian gentleman looks as he has Saami roots as well. Saamis are from Siberia.

@@jonam7589 perhaps many Finns and Estonians do to some small degree

​@@jonam7589 He looks like an average Estonian.

@@Astralmess I am sure you're right, but my Estonian friends' eyes look much less. This guy has an attitude as he has been raised in the US. Cool and handsome dude.

There is an ancient hungarian text, a funeral speech (probably from a priest. "Halotti beszéd "). When I listened to it, sounded very much like Finnish in rithm. I was suprised, and wondered how these languages could have sounded 1000 years ago. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rJaWroSElp57uZc.html

I met a very nice Finnish guy few years ago and we had this game there are many similarities mostly between very old Hungarian and very old Finnish however none of us use those words nowadays. We were absolutely amazed as we felt for the first time finally we found similarities between our languages 😀

Jep sama 😃

I agree with the Estonian similarity to Finnish, but you really have to study Hungarian and the ethymological roots to understand it from just Finnish or Estonian. You can't just guess the meaning as you can between Finnish and Estonian

As an Australian who has a Soumi wife and lived in Helsinki for seven years, Eesti just sounds like shortened slang Finnish

Estonian and Hungarian are much less similar than English and Russian, for example. The only "similarities" are some isolated words from an ancient origin language

The basic vocabulary has still some similarities

"I knew about the historical connection between these languages " not much. hungrian and ugric languages divided about 8-10.000 years ago. hungarian have more dravidian originated words than what common with fin-ugric speakers. this all fin-ugric line originated from 1800, from habsurgs. just becuase the autrians just like other germans arrived into europe as slave of huns when they defeted rome. and after collapse of hunnic empire they remained vasals of avars who was part of the hunnic tribe alliace. even vienna founded by avars and named bécs... this is how we hungarina still call it. and the avars was part of the seven tribe who founded the hungarian nation. (and made to to defeat holy-rome who made genocid agaist avars. and we defeted the at 907 battle of pressburg, ocupited austra and started to raid europe as punishment adn take back the stole avar goods) so if they clean our hunnic origin and force a fake identity they r rightfull ruler of hungary. later after the ww2 this theory was popular in round of communist, becuase they r just like liberals rootless people. and what they did was an early cancel culture.

@@Stripdancer100Very much not. The basic vocabulary - what we using 70% in our life the most - are extremely close - this nothing to do with the anglish and russian. This is why they are same family - there is law how the sounds changed - ant this always happening similarly though thousands and thousands words. This is why the science sure, that they relating. Of course for eeghnorant opinions you can skip the science, but just telling things about you, not about the facts!

@@kevhynaleks2631 I don't know what you mean but Hungarian and Estonian have about 2% of words of common origin, like Hungarian and Finnish. Yes, they are linguistically closer when compared to English and Russian, that's why linguistics can root their common origin, but Hungarian is far more away from other Finno-Ugric languages. There are no understanding even between Hungarians and their closest linguistic relatives, Khanty and Mansy

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Szia Dél Koreai vagyok de tudok magyarul is látom te az vagy 안녕하세요 저는 한국 사람이지만 헝가리어도 할 줄 압니다.😘

@@ipurpleyouarmy3703 örülök, hogy a mi nehéz nyelvünket tanultad 😊💪💪💪 Korea nagyon különleges és szép ország 😊

@@monikaboros1526 köszii😘😘

​@@ipurpleyouarmy3703 Én meg csak simán magyar vagyok. XD

Estonia represents only Estonia, but not all Finnic languages. Hungarian have the same right to represent.

As far I can see, You communicate with yours brother peoples with same language, as modern Irish man and modern North-American Black man. Probably, you culture achivements are the same great. Hope you proud it too.

@@user-ri9df7kt1l Yes, we have very rich cultural heritage. I recommend Kalevipoeg and Kalevala in epic literature and composers like Bela Bartók, Jean Sibelius and Arvo Pärt.

@@mikahamari6420 I know it, of course. But its very old. Much elder as Hollywood or Nobel price in literacy, for example For example, I like Irish culture. But they cant speak even mother language, they disappear right now. To safe own culture its nesessary to develop culture every year. Can you call 10 new books, 10 new songs in your culture for last 10 years? If not, this means, your culture disappeared.

@@user-ri9df7kt1l It is sad that many small Uralic languages have died or are dying. Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish have better situation. In every language there is uniquely coded world-view. I agree with you that culture is in constant change and every generation must continue and renew tradition. How we have managed, all of us know it in own heart. What I can do today is to give my own contribution, as we all can. Love for Irish people. ♥️

Szia Renata! Ket evvel ezelott dolgoztam Canada_ban egy Mongol kollegaval! Keepzeld el ok ugy gondoljak a mai napig hogy a magyarok a testvereik, csak leptek a kornyekrol, meglepoen sokat tudott a magyar tortenelemrol! Az alapveto szavaink szinte ugyanazok sar-sara nap-nap, ugyanugy hivjak a naptari napot mint mi, a csillagunk utan! Megdobbento!

@@alfredszabo1817 igen, velük is van egy-két érdekesen hasonló szó

@@sectorgovernor Igen, de tudod, hogy a hangzok modosulnak idovel, van egy ilyen nyelvtani torveny is, nem emlekszem melyik professzor mondta. A halotti beszed es a mai beszelt magyar nyelv nagyon jo pelda erre!

According to the literature szív (and its older version szű) is a cognate of süda, while szügy or szegy is of unknown origin but it may originate from a Finno-Ugric word meaning breast. I like your idea but it's not very likely for at least two reasons: - If the "d" was originally there, it must have been lost rather early because in many Finno-Ugric languages, including the Ob-Ugric languages, the d is missing. - The Hungarian gy sound did not develop as a palatalized d, but from an earlier j-like sound (j as in English "jungle" or Hungarian "dzsungel".)

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None of the languages is separated. I learned through Hungarian that everything is connected. Not only to theEast but to the West, South and North as well. Never listen to separation. 😇

They did really well! The key pointers helped but still some of them were rather tough!

Wow, how surprising ! I didn't expect them to do that well, congratulations ! I truly liked this !Nagyon tetszett nekem!

Yes, Hungarian is pretty distant from Estonian (like 4000 years), but even from Ugric languages(they are much closer but Hungarian split off from them probably 2500-3000 years ago) .

@@sectorgovernor I thought the split happened around the time the Magyars started migrating to Europe?

@@avishaiedenburg1102 From Finnic branch, it was much earlier. From Ugric branch (Khanty and Mansi) it was later, but still earlier than the migration. Hungarian became a separate language around 500 or 1000 BC. While if I remember well, the migration from the Ural started around 5-600 AD.

For sure! I like the sounds and faces they make whilst thinking

Part of the reason is that Hungarian is very distantly related to the Finnic branch. You have to struggle and make educated guesses even with simple words.

@@wyqtor still...

Finnish and Estonian are Finnic langugages, while Hungarian is Ugric.

Well the basic vocabulary in Hungarian has the same roots as the Finnish. I really mean to the most basic regular things

Hei Loksi, I am very sorry not being taught to Finnish, Estonian, Turkish or some agglutinative language in my childhood. We were forced to learn Russian, then English and German. And our language-family was interpreted to us as to be separated to a Ugric branch (Chanti, Mansi, Hungarian), and a Finnish branch (Saami, Finnish, Estonian,...), as Balázs Nagy has answered it. I am not a linguist, but I can see some debates about our ancestry amongst linguists. Elements of both sides have interesting theories about our common origin of language. However there are two scientists, whose opinion are based on the same platform: Simo Parpola (Fin) and Péter Révész (Hun) showing an alternative way of thinking of ancestry. I am not convinced that Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) would verify their results soon. In the same time Parpola in Finnland made a modernized language-history, I suppose. Finnish and Estonian are Ugrian or not, are undoubtfully related to Hungarian. Maybe the close connection was earlier than with the Chanti-Mansy are. The reason I choosed you to answer is your third written sentence. I am waiting for long to find a native speaker, who can I change opinions with. You wrote: you did not realize Hungarian had so many words with the same root as in Finnish. I think it is depending from the word itself one-by-one. But is interesting, which word-tree is bigger in which language. Are there any similarities in them as well? Hence I decided to answer you describing some roots with their Hungarian word-tree. I tried to eliminate all words, which are derived from agglutination or word composition. Let us start with the word-tree, which "kéz" is a part of. KÉZ (kässi - hand): KEZd - KEZdet (begin - beginning), KÉZbesít (deliver), KEZel (handle), KEZes (bailer, sponsor, but as a lamb too, that is tame, bland), KESZtyű (gloves), KESZkenő, KEndő (kerchief), KÉSZ (ready, but see also: KÉSZpénz - cash, where kész equals to kéz, because is ready to give/hand over), KÉSZít (makes, prepares originally with a handmade technique), KÉs (knife) as to be a handy tool, KÉr (ask for sg., see also: holding out his/her hand to ask some food/money), KÉrdez (ask, quaere; see also: when you ask sy, your hand is in palm-upright position). In case you are in the game, please describe first your Finnish word-tree of Kässi (to be comparable), then choose one of our common word (e.g. VERI), to follow. Involving your parents, grandparents, any fellow are highly acceptable. Merry Christmas, Hyvää Joulua!!!

@@1970coconut I am not a linguist either, but found many words related to English too: alter / változtat (eltér); curtail / megnyirbál (megkurtít, rövidít); court / kert (udvar); coroner (guard of 👑) / koronaőr; pompous / pompás; tore/tör; buck/bak; and there are many more

@@istvanmargittoth4268 Findings are correct, but English versions are to be referred to the Latin ones. More to love: Heritage (Eng) < hereditatus (Lat) < eredet; Phenomenon (Hellenic, English) < fénymene(t) (FÉNY could be derived from FENN - aloft, astair, where light comes from); PEDestrian, PEDagogue (Eng) < PEDis (Lat) < Pata (Hun)...

Indeed! Also the only similarity between French - Qui est-ce? - and Hungarian :)

@@arpad2188 That made me laugh!

"ki ez" (who is) in Hungarian. "kes on" (who is) in Estonian, official language. "kiä om" (who is) in South Estonian.

@@candicehuggins American growing in Hungary? Wow! That is something!

@@theDuplicitous I'm Australian and i grew up in Hungary!

Everyone there knows English, but his was exceptional. If I just heard him talking on the street, I would think he was an American.

@@briantravelman Yes, very impressive considering he lives in Estonia. He speaks like a native English speaker from North America

@@briantravelman Yeah, he sounded more or less American throughout the whole video except when he said "zed" not "zee" for the letter z.

Young Estonian generations in Estonia are vary Americanized. You guys always think, that Estonians are very Russian, but that is not the case (it is not worth to alternate Russians and Estonians living in Estonia with each other, which are different things). Russia is to Estonians, especially to younger generations quite unpopular (and it has always been). That Estonian boy is a fairly typical Estonian guy from the younger generation. Proficiency in English is about 50% in Estonia and most of it is formed by the younger generations.

​@@reudovaniaball9548 English is my native language, so I'm probably better able to say with confidence that that guy's English is native-sounding. It is a particular ability that is very rare and I don't think it's typical of young Estonians or anyone else who doesn't have that particular gift.

Make sure to visit the famous Rock of Tondi!

@@wyqtor And the Lahemaa National Park 🌲🌲🌳🌳

Estonia has a small area but there is so much to see.

Bubyška’s secret 🤫 😸

Are u from Caucasus by the way?

That's really impressive. Good on you 👍

Yeah, and Bahador will pull again these above here. Because there is no more.

Yeah, but sadly it is close to impossible to find a native mansi speaker nowdays.

@@csaba9285 Wikipedia says that there are 12k speakers in Russia. Well, it's a very small number but at least there are still people who speak the language.

Have them in the Urals just for funnsies, as well.

Finnish and hungarian have same kind of grammar. And our languages are related. When I was at school, they always told us to remember it.

And in Finnish, it's "Voi" for butter and "Vai" for "Or" (they also have "Tai"; The word used depends on a couple of different things). And "Voi" has multiple meanings as well. In addition to "Butter", it also means "Oh", as in "Voi ei" ("Oh, no"), and also "Can", as in "He/she/it can".

@@corinna007 Interesting, in Hungarian "or" is "vagy", so I believe it's another similarity. Oh would be "jaj", but it's funny because in Romanian vai means "oh", like in Finnish

Well I'm hungariam :) I'm really proud of my language 🥲 here is the translate 😂 Vaj- butter Vagy- or

@@henryviii2091 well your right jaj and Vai means that "oh"🤣🤣

@@henryviii2091 I haven't studied Hungarian, but "Vagy" seems to be a word with multiple meanings as well. I've been learning Finnish for about 6 1/2 years, and the amount of homonyms still makes my head spin. Finnish also has the word "Tai". The difference between that and "Vai" was explained to me as being more about choice; for example, in a question like "Haluaisitko kahvia vai teetä?" ("Would you like coffee or tea?"), "Vai" implies that the only choices are coffee and tea, whereas "Tai" would mean that there are other options, such as water. So "Tai" is more general or abstract, while "Vai" is more specific.

Végülis 13 nyelv van a családban (talán több is).

Are you interested in a used condom?

because of uralic family language?

There are still a hundred or so cognates left

I would suggest Manysi. There is a video here on UKposts about numbers in Manysi, some of them are really impressively similar to Hungarian

@@Yorgos2007 because Manysi (and Khantyi) is the most closest relatives to Hungarian. Hungarian and Estonian (and Finnish) have 6000 years different evolution in time, but in Manysi and Hungarian only have 3000 years (what is still a lot). But still interesting in the similarities on this video.

Are you Finnish?

@@Mo-zh2sc no, I just like studying languages.

I live in Timişoara, Banat Region, România. (Temesvár) not far from Szeged. ă = õ German, Serbian , Rroma, Romanian , Hungarian., plus...

@@christopherellis2663 Interesting though the earliest documented Hungarian state was established in the 9th century, Romans had been around well before that.

Romanian too, if you think about it. The closest Romance-speaking region is Friuli, more than 500 km away from the western tip of Romania, as well as some pockets of Aromanian and Meglenoromanian spoken in Northern Macedonia, Greece, and Albania. Some weird things happening in Pannonia and the Carpathian basin, were Slavic languages somehow haven't caught on, leaving the Southern Slavs separated from the other Slavs.

@@SamA-bo4tk ? Dou you mean the wallachians? What about Atilla? HUNgarian kingdom isn't founded in the 5th century?

@@e1gr3co 9th

A segment on false friends would be great

It is very hard or almost impossible to Estonians to pronounce the diphthong 'äy'. Instead is then 'äi'.The word 'tässä' is not used in active Estonian in that meaning.

Can't you enjoy and appreciate the Estonian language here? Do you need to constantly talk about Finnish?

@@vulc1 ​ You have a point. But Finnish gives more variety. Moreover, Finnish has retained more similarities to Hungarian than Estonian has (which does not appear here). And Finnish is probably the most archaic Uralic language and certainly much more conservative than Estonian. But in this case the words and expressions offered are the same as in Finnish. It does not make much difference from the position of the Hungarian language, whether the language in question is Estonian or Finnish. There are probably a few words that can be found in Estonian and Hungarian and not in Finnish, but now you supposedly have to settle for Estonian 'malev' (Estonian military unit; volunteer formation) and Hungarian 'Malév' (Magyar Légiközlekedési Vállalat).

@@reudovaniaball9548 To me it just appears as a form of linguistic chauvinism. Also something that Karelians are familiar with - Finns treating their language as an inferior Finnish dialect instead of seeing Karelian as an independent and separate language.

Thank you! Perhaps that day will come as well. Thanks a lot for your patience:)

Gorani are Serbs from Kosovo, they speak the Prizren-Timok dialect of the Serbian language (Призренско-тимочки дијалект/Prizrensko-timočki dijalekt), that dialect is spoken in Eastern and South Serbia and parts of Kosovo. But it would be interesting to compare the Serbian Prizren-Timok dialect and, for example, the Croatian Chaikavian dialect, which are slightly different from the standard Serbian and Croatian.

@@amarillorose7810 to be fair , we should ask also Bulgarian version

@@BahadorAlast are you from Iran?

Finnish and Estonian definitely have many cognates. Not sure about Finnish and Hungarian, though.

I would say, that Finnish and Hungarian have much more cognates than Estonian and Hungarian, because Estonian uses a lot of loanwords from balto-slavic and germanic languages. Finnish is much more conservative and uses much more words with uralic origin than Estonian. So the chance to find cognates should be higher between Finnish and Hungarian than between Estonian and Hungarian

Which dialect do you speak? I've been learning Finnish for about 6 years now, and I know some puhekieli and slang from different regions but the dialects are still something I'm trying to learn more of.

Yeah, Estonian and Finnish are very similar to the point where they're mutually inteligable

aren't they the same people just different borders?

@@briantravelman I wouldn't go that far. If you're Estonian and pull up the first article in a Finnish newspaper there are small chances you'll even understand the context of it. Unless there's some illustrations giving it away. For example the first article I see from Iltasanomat today: Pendolinot törmäsivät Tampereen rautatieasemalla: ”Näyttivät ottaneen reilusti osumaa” An Estonian with no Finnish exposure would understand Tampere from here.

@@ErtK I don't think so, man. Even as a Russian native (non-estonian) I got your "rautatie" which is "raudtee" in Estonian. Pendolino ia s famous Italian type of train. "Asema" probably means "station", which is "jaam" in Estonian. As you see now, it's not a big challenge even for me non-native one. For the native Estonian it would be much easier I guess.

They are very far in vocabulary. These words are the exceptions, but show that we have some connection thousands of years ago.

He chose the most similar words on purpose. Many other words, even cognates, are not that similar. Can you guess that "fiu" and "poika" are the same root?

@@le_synthesis2585 I understand :) But in fact this is a common situation. Russian and Belarusian or Ukrainian languages are very close to each other, but even there you can hardly understand Belorusian "dziakuj" (BTW, similar to Danish Tank, Englis Thank or German Danke) if you know only Russian "spasibo"

@@user-jy9eo8en8x Finnish and Hungarian are possibly as far from each other as Russian and English. You can find some strikingly similar IE cognates there, like brother/brat, sister/sestra, apple/yabloko, mother/mat' (mater'), to sit/sidet', to stand/stoyat'. But these selected words make a wrong picture.

Air is actually 'õhk' in Estonian. 'Õhu' also means air, but in a different form.

It's funny... Estonian käsi is a cognate to Hungarian kéz, and I believe töö must be related to Hungarian tesz (make/do). But Hungarian készítő (creator) comes from the word kész (ready, done) via készít (produce, make ready) which is unrelated.

Finnish person here! "käsityö" in Finnish is handicraft. So all 3 languages pretty similar.

There is a video where, in the comment section, Finnish and Estonian speakers are actively trying to understand each others' text, including Estonian dialects somewhat closer to Finnish than standard Estonian: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qnxep3d9fYeX2Y0.html Based on my own tests (as a Finnish speaker trying to understand Wiki articles or songs in Estonian) these two languages are quite far from each other. It's impossible to understand 95-99% of anything more delicate - like for example a Wiki article. It's only really basic expressions and constructs that are similar / intelligible. Based on my own experience with the same-subject Wiki article, it's WAY easier to understand the same text in Dutch if you also speak German than with the Estonian & Finnish pair. There, the understand ratio is almost the opposite. I'd say around 80-90%; that is, you can understand 80-90% of Dutch language Wiki articles if you speak German.

@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 Curious, as an Estonian native, I understand >95% of Finnish texts or speech. I have never studied Finnish.

@@henrikmanitski1061 You may have never formally studied the language but still had exposure to it from Finnish TV or tourists? ;) I'm absolutely sure an Estonian with no prior exposure can absolutely not understand a Finnish text with more than 95% hit rate. That may be a match rate of very closely related languages like Dutch and German but definitely not Finnish and Estonian. At ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qpx4fqFwgXl4lGw.html , a lot of other Estonians explain how much Finnish they understand. Some examples of people NOT having had previous exposure (like TV): (note: I only quote the very first part of the posts; use Find to find the rest of them): My experience as an Estonian from southern Estonia (meaning no Finnish TV as a child as the Finnish broadcast did not reach that far) now living in Finland for the second year: Before learning any Finnish, I understood basically nothing! I mean there are many basic words that are the same or similar (like ‘käsi’ - ‘hand’, ‘vesi’ - ‘water’), but that does not get you very far even for everyday language. I remember reading the warning label on the radiators saying ‘Ei saa peittää’ - ‘do not cover’. The meaning is quite obvious from the context, I mean what else would you need to write on a radiator? But in Estonian ‘Ei saa peita’ means ‘cannot be hidden’ (Is this a challenge? Sure it can! Let me show you! :D). Trying to read a newspaper, I would recognize a word here and there, but that’s about it. Of course I would understand the international words like ‘koronavirus’ and such, but Finnish uses a lot fewer international words than Estonian, so if a Finn knows any Swedish or German or even English, they would automatically know more words in Estonian than the other way around. Some examples from Estonian and Finnish: ‘sport’ - ‘urheilu’, ‘start’ - ‘lähtö’, ‘telefon’ - ‘puhelin’. Without specifically learning those words, an Estonian would not recognize them in Finnish. ==== Hi, Estonian here. I personally don't understand Finnish, but I know my parents and many others who grew up on the north coast of Estonia during Soviet occupation do, because they tuned into Finnish TV and radio all the time for a peek outside the iron curtain. Currently English would be the go to tongue to breach the language gap between me and a Fin and I'm ashamed to say that this isn't changing any time soon. ==== I'm Estonian. And I can understand some words here and there, but understanding whole sentences is impossible.

@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 True, I've had exposure to Finnish TV from the age of 5. Which is probably why - from the comprehension POV - Finnish is not a foreign language to me, even though I have actually used it extremely sporadically.

@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 Even if this was true, Estonian is still the closest related widely spoken language to Finnish. In my understanding Estonian has much more Germanic lexicon than Finnish has nowadays.

@ Sean Apart from the now extinct (as of 2003 when last native/mother tongue speaker passed away) Livonian language only Finnish and Estonian exist as finno-ugric uralic languages in the Baltics. The other two main Baltic languages are Latvian and Lithuanian which have different roots Having said that Estonian also includes another dialect known as vuru keelt vuru language is similar to Estonian and can be mutually understood. Similar anomalies probably appear in Finland as well. Latvian and Lithuanian are apparently the surviving remnants of Prussians who created the United German empire in 1870 .🙋

@Prof. Spudd Also Latgalian and Samogitian

@@you-know-who9023 Võro is not an Estonian dialect, it is a separate language with its own literary standard. Võro has also its own dialectal variant called Võro-Seto (or simply Seto) that is spoken both in Estonia and Russia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5ro_language

@@vulc1 võro, mulgi and seto are all estonian dialects and close to formal estonian, which is based on northern dialects. Actually, maybe seto is a bit different but tartu, võru and mulgi dialects are very hard to separate and are all considered as (now almost extinct) southern estonian language

Privet, Aleksei Milovanov! How deep do you know Ersya? I wonder if there is relation between ved' and the next ones which i know only in English and Hungarian: 1. Drives - Vezet 2. Carries - Visz, 3. Backwards - Vissza, 4. Takes - Vesz, 5. Wet - Nedves, 6. Savour - Íz 7. Drinks - Isz(ik). Thanks a lot!

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"most Finnish and Estonians speak English very well no accent" - then, listen to Finns' "s" :)

Both Hungarian and Estonian, but also Finnish are beautiful languages. Still, these are your cousins. Above Szlovakia there are your brothers :) Hajra Magyarország!

@@Boguslaw91 Slovakia is out neighbor not our brothers…

@@streettravelxxi but just as I mentioned- above it :) Lengyelország

@@Boguslaw91 🤝

We already knew they were part of the same language family. What do you mean “definitely”?

Yes, Estonian was once a gaelic speaker tribe. Look for Aestii in old writings.

There was extensive contact between Uralic and Indo-European languages throughout history, and it is possible that they have influenced one another or there are loanwords. In Sami languages for instance, "arya" or "orja" means "south" which suggests that the IE languages were just to the south of the Uralic speakers.

The Estonian "kes" was formed from two different things, similarly to Hungarian "ki ez". Those two words were Finnic "ken" + "se/see", with "ken" meaning "who" and "se" meaning "it" or "that" depending on context. Finnish also still has "ken", but it is more archaic or poetic now with "kuka" being more common. Using "ken" in Finnish, one could say "ken se on" meaning "who is it". Although grammatical case forms of "ken" are far more common than the base word, for example "kenestä" being the elative singular form of it and could be used like "kenestä on kyse" meaning something along the lines of "who is in question".