We may even say that the Finnish language has nothing to do
with any other contemporary European languages.
The only novels I know from that country are a few by Matti
Yrj䮤 Joensuu, through French translations. Mainly with a
police detective,Timo Harjunp䤬 and rather dark.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
JT Lindroos
>>How different are the Scandinavian languages from
each other? Are Danish,
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>Swedish, and Finnish as similar to
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>>each other as, say, American English, British
English, and Australian
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>English, so that, although there'd be
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>>differences, people from each place could
generally understand each other,
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>or are they as different as,
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>>say, Italian and Spanish, which have the same
Latin roots but are still
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>very different languages?
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>Finnish is totally different from Swedish, Danish,
Norwegian, though these
>three are quite similar.
>
>And if anybody has a good Finnish crime novel
translated (even roughly) I
>could look into giving it a shot it in the US
market.
>
>--Juha.
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