FINNISH

Finnish - Suomi - is an Uralic language, close akin with Estonian, also related to Lappish, and distantly related to Hungarian. It is written since the 16th century. It is spoken by around six million people in Finland, Russian Carelia and in a few places of Sweden, Norway and Estonia. Tolkien discovered Finnish in 1911-1912 and it left a profound mark on him, perhaps because of the linguistic change of scenery he found in that language, one of the few in Europe that do not belong to the Indo-European family. Finnish has been an important inspiration in the elaboration of Quenya.

The Finnish recordings have been made by Petri Tikka, who has it as his mother tongue. Thank you Petri!

Isä meidän - Pater noster

Terve Maria - Ave Maria

Kunnia Isälle - Gloria Patri

The death of Kullervo - The end of the 36th canto of the Kalevala, by Elias Lönnrot