Bon jour y merci beaucoup, Gamal and Greg, pour votre support y concern pour ma langue! (Concern, c´est un mot correct francais?)
Ehkä suomi on kuitenkin liian vaikea ja erilainen kieli muille eurooppalaisille? (Perhaps Finnish is anyway too difficult and different language for other Europeans?) Besides Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian there are two Finno-Ugric languages that have some kind of official position in EU countries: Saami in Sweden and Finland, and Livonian in Latvia. In fact, there are six different Saami languages that are officially recognized in EU (Northern, Lule, Pite and Southern Saami in Sweden, Northern, Inari and Skolt Saami in Finland). The differences between Saami languages are about as big as between Romance languages (though the number of speakers is rather different). The position of Livonian in Latvia is rather formal, as there are only a handful of speakers.
Ehkä suomi on kuitenkin liian vaikea ja erilainen kieli muille eurooppalaisille? (Perhaps Finnish is anyway too difficult and different language for other Europeans?) Besides Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian there are two Finno-Ugric languages that have some kind of official position in EU countries: Saami in Sweden and Finland, and Livonian in Latvia. In fact, there are six different Saami languages that are officially recognized in EU (Northern, Lule, Pite and Southern Saami in Sweden, Northern, Inari and Skolt Saami in Finland). The differences between Saami languages are about as big as between Romance languages (though the number of speakers is rather different). The position of Livonian in Latvia is rather formal, as there are only a handful of speakers.