Do you want to hear how we speak in west-Lapland?

[beluga]

it`s called meänkieli

http://www.ur.se/sprak/finska/n&mmeny.htm

[khu]

My finnish ain't too great, but sounds like the dialect emphasizes a lot of double letters?

And you say 'mie' like here in Karjala too?

[beluga]

yes in Lapland we all say 'mie' and we also add letter 'h' in some words

[alloydog]

I saw this movie, a few years back. It was set in Lapland towards the end of the Lapland war, with the Germans. The locals seems to speak a bizarre mix of Finnish, Swedish and Sami. IIRC, the film had subtitles, in Finnish

Damned funny film as well - the locals had decided to torch the biggest property in the village, and claim it was burnt by the Germans, then try and claim a million marks in compensation from the Government...

There was also a scene where as a German tank approaches, the villagers spring into action, haulling down the Finnish flag & hoisting up the Swedish one, pulling up a 'frontier' barrier across the river course, and playing the Swedish national anthem very loud on a gramaphone, to make th eGermans think they were in Sweden!

[beluga]

The locals seems to speak a bizarre mix of Finnish, Swedish and Sami.

Swedish and Finnish yes, but Sami is whole different language. When we are talking about meänkieli I mean..

[khu]

yes in Lapland we all say 'mie' and we also add letter 'h' in some words

Apparently some people here in pohjois-karjala add h to some words too! The divergence between book-language and spoken language is pretty big, and it's frustrating to learn a word and hear it spoken another way entirely.

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[beluga]

yes in Lapland we all say 'mie' and we also add letter 'h' in some words

Apparently some people here in pohjois-karjala add h to some words too! The divergence between book-language and spoken language is pretty big, and it's frustrating to learn a word and hear it spoken another way entirely.

Buuuuuuuuu

yep, they add it too, but in different way than us