Children in East Timor learn Finnish from schoolbooks
Finnish is a neutral language; Portuguese, English and Bahasa Indonesian all relate to the colonial past
Where was that link of the guy who claimed that Finnish or a Fenno language was spoken once, before the Celtic era, all over Europe?
I found instead this one about Finnish spoken on East-Timor in HS-international edition.
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By Inkeri Koskela
"Leikkaa tästä" (cut here), "piirrä" (draw), "tavataan taas" (see you later). Children in East Timor may soon surprise an unsuspecting Finnish traveller with short Finnish greetings and instructions, which they have picked up from their Finnish schoolbook, Opin Itse (I'm Learning).
Last year a Finnish publishing house provided East Timor with 220,000 copies of a schoolbook aimed at first and second graders. This is a fairly substantial order from a country with total population of just shy of 800,000. There's a book for every fourth East Timorese.
After the first year the feedback on the Finnish books has been good, report UN officials.