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🔴 🎥 Germanic Loanwords in Finnic Languages (with Dr. Johan Schalin)

“Dr. Johan Schalin presents on the fascinating history of the long interaction between Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages and Finnic languages, and the many different periods in which Germanic loanwords entered and became a part of Finnic.”

#Video length: one hour and thirty four minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/LIgKd0Ovzy8

#LoanWords #Words #Germanic #Finnic #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Scandinavia #Europe @linguistics

There are thousands of scrolls of birch bark lodged in the soil in Novgorod, and they demonstrate a surprising level of popular literacy in the medieval period.

One of the scrolls (any word you use will be too fancy for the real thing, which is literally just a scrap of bark) is the earliest written text in a Balto-Finnic language (cool) and contains a spell or incantation of some kind (very cool).

I've been fascinated with birch bark letter #292 for a long time, so it was an obvious choice for a 'vaguely Finnish, weirdly specific' video.

Take a moment to enjoy my enthusiastic gesticulating about transliteration and back pain - and if you are particularly diverted, do give it a boost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1ie5fyrY0

#birchbark #gramota #filtrit #linguistics #archaeology #Finnish #finnic #literacy #myth #magic #medieval #Karelian

My turn! Tomorrow's Filtrit episode is *extremely* vaguely Finnish and very, very specific. Archaeological treasure, linguistic mystery, the concept of literacy and the ire of ancient gods - what's not to like?

I had to learn medieval Cyrillic to make it, so commitment to the bit is strong in this one. 📜💪

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#linguistics #archaeology #finnic #filtrit #myth #language #translation #translitteration #literacy #medieval