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Words Of Finnish OriginRather few words of Finnish origin have entered other languages, the language being a net importer of words. Words loaned to English Finnish has loaned a bare handful of words to the English language specifically. The best known example is Sauna, and many would argue that Sauna even is the only loanword in the English language that is used outside of the context of Finland, (ethnic) Finnish culture, and military tactics of the Winter War. An example from the last field is the motti-tactic. Word loaning amongst Finno-Ugric and Germanic languages Whether cognates in Finnish and other languages are borrowings between languages or are the results of common substrates is a subject of dispute amongst linguists. Some have suggested, for example, that the Germanic languages evolved from a Indo-European language imposed on a Finnic substrate. See also Finnish
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