I was recently talking with a Russian friend of mine, and he told me that Finland is actually Slavic. His reasoning was that Russia and Finland share a long border and a lot of history

Please don’t burn me at the stake I’m just the messenger D:

I know next to nothing about this and just wanted to see if there was any truth to what he said from a cultural or historical standpoint

  • ʙᴏᴏᴋᴡʜʏʀᴍ [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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    26 days ago

    both major nationalities of finland, the finnish and sámi peoples, are speakers of finno-ugric languages, a branch of the non-indo-european uralic family. finnish swedes speak swedish, a language in the germanic branch of the indo-european family. slavic languages are spoken predominantly by immigrant communities, the largest of which is the russian-language community, consisting of about 1% of the population.