Re: SV: Reply, antwort, svar etc

[Henri Toivonen]

Anders Hultman wrote:

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Henri Toivonen wrote:

 

Because Scandinavia are the countries which have a part of the Scandic 
mountains. Finland do not. They are not a part of Scandinavia, but they 
are a part of the Nordic countries.

Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
   

Hmmm... you made me uncertain there. There's not much of mountains in
Denmark, and it's not located on the peninsula, so my first instinct was
not to include Denmark in Scandinavia, but on the other hand, if you talk
anout "Scandinavian languages" you'll definately have to include Danish.
And Icelandic and Faroese. But not Finnish and the different Sami
languages. Oh, well. It's a mess :-D
anders
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Actually, if it weren't for the Scandic mountains, there wouldn't be any 
Denmark as that part would be beneath the sea.
It's not "mountainy" but it's still a part of it. :-)

You're right about the languages, Finnish is not part of the same 
language family. (Finnish is a part of the Finno-Ugric family.)

/Henri (Lived in both Sweden and Finland, speaks both languages fluently)