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The Uralic languages constitutes a language family of some 38 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the greatest in number who speak the languages. Other Uralic languages are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt, and Komi, which are officially recognized languages in regions of Russia. The name "Uralic" derives from language family's original homeland, Urheimat, the Ural Mountains. How Russian do you want it?
The root of the Finns is firmly in RUSSIA. Language and all. So stop trying to make out Finland and the Finns are something they are not.
And English is an Indo-European language. Other Indo-European languages are Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Nepali, Sindhi, Marathi, Sinhala, Sanskrit, and also Persian, Pashto, Dari and Kurdish.
All of these are official languages in countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Malidives, Nepal, Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, or regions within them.
In other words, you should look to India or Pakistan? Cause India (or what is the country of India today) is where your language originates from originally, if we are looking that far back in time. How Indian do you want it?
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Yes, Finland was part of Russia from 1809 to 1917, but mostly only in name. Finland was fully autonomic other but in foreign policy. We had our own laws, religion, way of life, postal agency, even military. The Finnish Mark was established as our sole currency at 1860. Only priviledged Russian nobility and big bourgeoisie were even allowed to move to Finland. When Finland declared independence in 1917, there were only 8000 Russians living here. Russian didn't even become a joint official language before 1899. When we broke off, almost all Russians were denied entrance, many Russian aristrocrats and especially Jewish specialists applied for citizenship, but were denied, and that was a mistake.
Anyway, Finland has never been an integral part of Russia.
Let's see; 700 years of actually being Sweden's eastern half vs. just over 100 years of being an autonomous Russian territory. Come on, of course it's more Russian. It has to be because on City-Data, reality is always debatable. And you are a native Finn, and another thing common to these forums is for someone who has never lived in your country to tell you about it because you need to be told.
This is like saying that Papua New Guinea is "more like Australia" than the rest of New Guinea island and Melanesia just cause it was an Australian territory for about 100 years with little to no influence on local culture.
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