The connection to Finnish is so strong that I actually remembered the Finnish numbers yksi, kaksi, kolme, and nelja (only thing I missed was the dieresis on neljä) while watching this video, even though I’ve never studied Finnish and only encountered those numbers in a much older video on this channel and, quite frankly, my memory is usually terrible.
I am able to speak Finnish quite well but I do not spot any similarities other than the numbers, perhaps only "tylžo" is similar to the Finnish "tulla" ("to come")
Is this the standard version of Latinization? Just like when Russian is latinized for English, it's confusing that Y marks both a consonant (like English Y=German J), and a vowel (like Russian ы, similar to Polish Y).
Both sound extremely Russian as a result of Imperial & Soviet Russification, but I can certainly tell their Uralicness from the structure of their words and some of their pronunciation! Very interesting stuff! 👌🏼
All of Africa knows French or English or some other European language! And? All of Latin America speaks Portuguese or Spanish! And? All of North America speaks English! And ? Australia too!
@@SB-fw3yr That makes Russia no better than other colonial nations who impose themselves on the local population; playing the whataboutism game doesn't help your case.
May the Mari people thrive under their Russian sovereign and that both may be protected as the Russian Federation has its eyes on new recruits, which includes those in their non-Russian & minority regions and local Republics.
@@michaelzieniewicz1107 Very unlikely. Russian "closed" phonology resembles the ones of several early Indo-European branches (and some reconstructions of pIE uses an akin phonological system), while Finnic languages have commonly more "open" phonetics.
tldr Dialects. "The Mari language today has three standard forms: Hill Mari, Northwestern Mari, and Meadow Mari. The latter is predominant and spans the continuum Meadow Mari to Eastern Mari from the Republic into the Ural dialects of Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk Oblast and Udmurtia), whereas the former, Hill Mari, shares a stronger affiliation with the Northwestern dialect (spoken in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and parts of the Kirov Oblast). "
