Funny how this map depicts Wales as the only country to vote for its own language as strangest…
Sorry, I know a guy from Estonia… Must have been him that voted
This is bizarre. Why would Lithuanians and Czechs give a damn about Basque? I call BS on this
For context- Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are not part of the ‘Indo-European’ language family that most European (and lots of languages on the Indian subcontinent) belong to; they instead belong to the Uralic language family. Basque seems to be a ‘language isolate’ that existed in the area prior to the influx of Indo-European languages. So it would make sense that those who come into contact with those languages would find them weird since their grammar is likely to be vastly different compared to other neighbouring languages.
I know some Estonian guys….it isn’t that they think Welsh is weird, it is more like they have a weird language too….and a similar history in some respects.
They consider us brothers in arms
What did Estonia do to Finland? Estonian and Finnish are closely related to the point that there is some mutual intelligibility. All other pairs shown here all right at least in a different language subgroup (e.g. Celtic/Germanic) and mostly in a completely different language group (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Basque).
Of course I’m assuming that the UK poll was counted together. Because sadly it probably was. It would be interesting to know what language Cymru would have chosen.
Edit: correction, Latvian and Lithuanian are also closely related. Obviously it’s a Baltic thing.
Kosovo going after Ireland for some reason!
Haha
There’s a lot of Welsh connections to Estonia. Surprisingly. That’s why they mentioned it. Welsh people live there.
I do love how the Hungarians agree with most of Europe
As a Finnish speaker, Estonian (the language) is weird. It sounds like ‘wrong’ Finnish. I’m saying all this with love.
However, the country is awesome. 100% recommend a visit, old town Tallinn is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Estonians are super cool and chill as well. It’s a great example of how a modern country should operate (IMO).
Don’t know why they think Welsh is weird though. I know quite a lot of Estonians and I don’t think Wales is particularly prominent in their zeitgeist.
We’ve played Estonia a lot in the football so we’ve probably left a big impression on them.
Well Estonia is one thing, but I suspect the neighbours still haven’t got their heads around the idea that we still speak a form of the British language.
Did Albania just roast their own language?
I got off with an Estonian girl on a night out in Cardiff 10 years ago so it was probably me lads, sorry about that
I don’t know if I’d call Hungarian weird, but it is a very ugly sounding language. Welsh is weird to my English ears, but I also think it sounds interesting and beautiful.
Seeing as Welsh is a native language of the island, the Saxon, angles and the rest of the colonists did a good job, fair play.
Bloody Germans, coming over here with their Inglisch
Welsh is objectively weird to be fair, if only because of how little resemblance it bears to most modern languages. I doubt there are many still spoken languages as unique as Welsh in the world.
Kosovo and Irish though. 🤣
Welsh is definitely not weird when sung
And not a single mention of Maltese?
More importantly why is WALES purple, also Ireland wouldn’t think we were weird either
It says weirdest not worst, why are people acting offended, at least they’ve heard of Welsh which I’d say is more of an accomplishment. Imagining getting the reaction from the Estonians after asking people on a Welsh high street to point to where Estonia is on a map.
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Cyprus and Estonia have beef for no reason 😭
Funny how this map depicts Wales as the only country to vote for its own language as strangest…
Sorry, I know a guy from Estonia… Must have been him that voted
This is bizarre. Why would Lithuanians and Czechs give a damn about Basque? I call BS on this
For context- Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are not part of the ‘Indo-European’ language family that most European (and lots of languages on the Indian subcontinent) belong to; they instead belong to the Uralic language family. Basque seems to be a ‘language isolate’ that existed in the area prior to the influx of Indo-European languages. So it would make sense that those who come into contact with those languages would find them weird since their grammar is likely to be vastly different compared to other neighbouring languages.
I know some Estonian guys….it isn’t that they think Welsh is weird, it is more like they have a weird language too….and a similar history in some respects.
They consider us brothers in arms
What did Estonia do to Finland? Estonian and Finnish are closely related to the point that there is some mutual intelligibility. All other pairs shown here all right at least in a different language subgroup (e.g. Celtic/Germanic) and mostly in a completely different language group (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Basque).
Of course I’m assuming that the UK poll was counted together. Because sadly it probably was. It would be interesting to know what language Cymru would have chosen.
Edit: correction, Latvian and Lithuanian are also closely related. Obviously it’s a Baltic thing.
Kosovo going after Ireland for some reason!
Haha
There’s a lot of Welsh connections to Estonia. Surprisingly. That’s why they mentioned it. Welsh people live there.
I do love how the Hungarians agree with most of Europe
As a Finnish speaker, Estonian (the language) is weird. It sounds like ‘wrong’ Finnish. I’m saying all this with love.
However, the country is awesome. 100% recommend a visit, old town Tallinn is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Estonians are super cool and chill as well. It’s a great example of how a modern country should operate (IMO).
Don’t know why they think Welsh is weird though. I know quite a lot of Estonians and I don’t think Wales is particularly prominent in their zeitgeist.
We’ve played Estonia a lot in the football so we’ve probably left a big impression on them.
Well Estonia is one thing, but I suspect the neighbours still haven’t got their heads around the idea that we still speak a form of the British language.
Did Albania just roast their own language?
I got off with an Estonian girl on a night out in Cardiff 10 years ago so it was probably me lads, sorry about that
I don’t know if I’d call Hungarian weird, but it is a very ugly sounding language. Welsh is weird to my English ears, but I also think it sounds interesting and beautiful.
Seeing as Welsh is a native language of the island, the Saxon, angles and the rest of the colonists did a good job, fair play.
Bloody Germans, coming over here with their Inglisch
Welsh is objectively weird to be fair, if only because of how little resemblance it bears to most modern languages. I doubt there are many still spoken languages as unique as Welsh in the world.
Kosovo and Irish though. 🤣
Welsh is definitely not weird when sung
And not a single mention of Maltese?
More importantly why is WALES purple, also Ireland wouldn’t think we were weird either
It says weirdest not worst, why are people acting offended, at least they’ve heard of Welsh which I’d say is more of an accomplishment. Imagining getting the reaction from the Estonians after asking people on a Welsh high street to point to where Estonia is on a map.
Faux internet offence is draining.
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