Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura: KALEVALA The official 150th anniversary site by the finnish Literature Society. Events, publications and a list of translations and foreignlanguage adaptations of the Kalevala. http://www.finlit.fi/kalevala/indexeng.html
Extractions: Technologies ... University of Helsinki This site is being developed by and maintained by the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Helsinki. The Nordic language technology documentation project is financed partly by the Nordic Language Technology Research Program administered by NorFA We cooperate via NorDokNet with similar sites in Language technology is a multidisciplinary field, which studies technical means and methods that can be used to process natural language with computers. Some well-known applications of language technologyn are for example automatic authoring tools (such as spell checking) and speech recognition. Language technology has also many other application areas, which are introduced in the Technologies section and in Language Technology World
Poko Rekords A stand alone finnish label owned by EMI. Specializes in finnish Rock, both in finnish and in English language. http://www.poko.fi/cgi-bin/show.pl?page=etusivu
Theiling Online: Fukhian Fukhian is a constructed, fictional language. It is an agglutinating human language which is totally regular, also featuring a unique script. The language is inspired by finnish, Turkish, Arabic and Devanagari. http://www.theiling.de/conlang/s1/
Extractions: Search this site Fukhian A Constructed Agglutinating Human Language This page uses a romanisation to show the Fukhian grammar. For showing pronunciation, CXS (=Conlang X-Sampa) is used. Please note that some examples in this file reflect the Ancient Fukhian language. Unfortunately, they are not always properly marked. This was my first constructed language. I started to work at it around 1989, maybe earlier. It has not been modified since around 1994 and although I see some deficiencies today, I do not intend to improve or extend it in a way that would be changing the original design goals. This usually means that I cannot change or even extend it at all. The Fukhian script is an alphabet that is designed to be written by hand. It has some similarities with the Arabic script, but it is a 'hanging' script like Devanagari. Writing direction is left-to-right, bottom-to-top.
The Official Värttinä Website A finnish band that has grown from mostly traditional vocal music to combining traditional language and lyrics with modern music and themes. With biography, discography, and show schedule. http://www.varttina.com/
Kissa's Korner Personal home page which includes photos and memories with pages on Waterford history, finnish heritage, years in an orphanage and American Sign language. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3273/index.html
Extractions: Language Exchange Learn Finnish via Language Exchange - Text Chat Matti 's profile Basics Where Age: Country: Finland Gender: male Location: Helsinki Classroom? No Time zone: (GMT 3:00) Languages Language Exchange Native language(s): Finnish Practicing language(s): Portuguese German Spanish French Seeking an e-mail exchange: No Seeking a text chat exchange: Yes Seeking a voice chat exchange: No Description: Hi! I'm a 20-year-old student from Finland and I'd like to practise my language skills in Portuguese (which I don't speak at all but I'd very much like to=), German, Spanish or French, and get new friends from all over the world. My native language is Finnish, and I also speak fluent English. Usual time for chat: 9 pm to 2 am Profile date: October 17, 2001 Click here to send an email to Matti now. Find all Finland penpals
Lexique Multilingue - Pourparleraffaires.com Module of the French as a foreign language course Pour Parler Affaires. With definitions in French and translations into English, German, Dutch, finnish, Italian, and Spanish. http://www.chancerel.com/pourparler/htm/lexique.htm
Extractions: Ce lexique contient le vocabulaire employé dans la méthode de français commercial Pour parler affaires . Les mots et expressions sont classés par ordre alphabétique strict. Un renvoi permet de savoir dans quel Module et quelle Étape du Livre de létudiant ils apparaissent (ex. M3E2 : Module Étape Profil Net Activités sur Internet Ce lexique multilingue en ligne peut aussi être utilisé comme outil de référence en matière de français commercial. This glossary contains the vocabulary used in the French Business Course Pour parler affaires . Words and phrases are translated in alphabetical order. The reference next to each entry shows in which Module and in which Étape of the Students Book the word appears first (ex. M3E2 : Module Étape Profil Net Activités sur Internet This online multilingual glossary can also be used as a tool on its own for Business French. FRANÇAIS MONOLINGUE FRANÇAIS ANGLAIS FRANÇAIS ALLEMAND FRANÇAIS FINNOIS ... FRANÇAIS ESPAGNOL
Extractions: New! Old photo Is there national extremism in Karelia? (in Finnish and Russian) Karelian language planning in the 1930's (in Finnish) Photoalbum New links Friends of Viena Karelia (in Finnish) Repola-society Ludic society (in Finnish and Ludic) Viena Karelian folklore villages Culture pages from Karelia (in Finnish) Tver Karelian cultural autonomy (mainly in Russian) Karelian page at www.onego.ru Hosted by GeoCities Karjalane lehüt - Karelian page Suomeksi Po-russki Instructions Articles and papers on Karelian language planning On Soviet language policy: The planning of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's - Licentiate's dissertation at the University of Joensuu (in Finnish) The Soviet national and linguistic policy in the Tver Karelia during the 1930's - Paper presented at the seminar of the Graduate school on Karelia, East Europe and Russia of the Joensuu University 18.4.1997 (in Finnish) The problem of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's and the 1990's - Paper presented at the international conference "Sociolinguistic problems in different regions of the world", Moscow, October 22-24, 1996 Sovettisuomi? Language planning in the Soviet Karelia
Usein Kysyttyä Suomalais-ugrilaisista Kielistä by Johanna Laakso. Is finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do finnish words come from? A FinnoUgric linguist answers these and other common questions. http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html
National Geographic Lord Of The Rings -- Languages & Culture Tolkien s High Elvish language, Quenya, was inspired by finnish. Tolkien taughthimself finnish in order to read the Kalevala, a 19thcentury compilation of http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/language.html
Extractions: What does it mean when one culture changes or vanishes from the Earth? How does a language influence or embody a given culture? And what does it mean to a people, or to the rest of the world, when a language dies? Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis explains: "A language isn't just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. It is a flash of the human spirit, a vehicle though which the soul of a particular culture comes into the material world. And when we lose a language, we lose a vital element of the human dream." Despair over the loss of cultures and languages resonates throughout Tolkien's narrative in The Lord of the Rings.
Extractions: We consider it to be the major goal of our program to have you use Finnish in as large a variety of real-life situations as possible. To that end, our Finnish courses have been designed to build fluency in both the spoken and the written language. Please note that unless we have the minimum enrollment of four students at the beginning of each of our four main sessions (consisting of eight weeks), we are not able to offer a regularly scheduled group class. Students have the choice of either placing their names on a waiting list for a possible group class or making arrangements for private instruction Introductory Finnish Introduces both the spoken and the written language, with conversational proficiency as the primary goal. The course emphasizes grammar, oral expression, and listening comprehension, and is designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of this course, you can expect to be able to speak in a present and a future tense, to have enough vocabulary (500 to 1,000 words) to participate in basic everyday conversation, and to be able to read and write a simple letter. Since communication in a foreign language requires an understanding of the cultural context, our aim is to teach you the living language through carefully selected textbooks, newspaper and magazine articles and other relevant materials, rather than have you repeat and memorize tourist phrases.
Foreign Language Resources The site also has excellent resources for foreign language teachers who want to use finnish. French. German. Gaelic. Hawaiian. Hebrew. Italian. Japanese http://webgerman.com/languages/
IU Bloomington: Offers courses on the Balticfinnish region and language courses in finnish and Estonian. http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/
Extractions: Events Resources Links Publications ... IU Bloomington Department of Central Eurasian Studies Central Eurasia, the home of some of the world's greatest art, epic literature, and empires, is the vast heartland of Europe and Asia extending from Central Europe to East Asia and from Siberia to the Himalayas. The Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University took its present name in 1993. It was founded as an Army Specialized Training Program for Central Eurasian languages in 1943, then formally organized as the Program in Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1956 to 1965) and later the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1965 to 1993). The Department has long been one of the world's leading centers of academic expertise on Central Eurasia as well as the sole independent degree-granting academic unit staffed with its own faculty of specialists. The faculty of the Department enjoys an international reputation for the high quality of its research and publications. In addition to its human resources, the Department has holdings in the Indiana University Main Library, the
Department Of Germanic Languages And Literatures Offers elementary and intermediate language courses in finnish and courses (in English) in finnish culture and society. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/german/
Elsi's Links - Finnish/suomi/Finland And Others University of Helsinki language Center online finnish course; Suomea, ole hyvä! Resources for other languages (finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ekaiser/fin-links.html
How Similar Are Estonian And Finnish? 1995 contribution to soc.culture.baltics by Eugene Holman from the University of Helsinki. http://muhu.cs.helsinki.fi/By_Subject/Language/Estonian_Finnish_similarity
HENINEN.NET Collection of links related to Karelia, its culture and history, and including links to linguistic material related to the Karelain language. Trilingual site (English, Russian and finnish). http://heninen.net/
