Magnificent Linguistic Family Tree Shows How all Languages are Related.

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3. This was very impressive, though with one glaring error

In the sub-diagram where the Scandinavian languages and Finnish are dually listed with their names in their own languages, Norwegian is correctly listed as Norsk, Danish is correctly listed as Dansk, and Swedish is correctly listed as Svenska. However, Finnish is incorrectly listed as Suomi. Suomi is the country (Finland). The language, Finnish, is called Suomea by native speakers. In Finnish, as with Hungarian, the stress is always on the first syllable, and all letters are pronounced, so a Finn would call his/her language "SOO-oh-may-ah." The country is pronounced "SOO-oh-mee."

I noticed also that it translated Icelandic as "Islenska." When I was there, the locals told me it was pronounced "Islensk," although I never learned enough to get well-informed. I was 19 and only there for 3 days with my brother, and we were there to see the sights, not get fluent in the language. Next time!