See the this Wiki section for examples:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish\_phonology#Sandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_phonology#Sandhi)
Quote: “Finnish sandhi is extremely frequent, appearing between many words and morphemes, **in formal standard language** and in everyday spoken language.”
The claim that formal Finnish is pronounced as written is a form of national psychosis propagated in primary schools, and most Finns have never questioned it.
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Same with german, italian, etc. Always heard it with those languages too.
Gotta admit that it still works when you do the opposite : there’s one spelling for a sound, despite a grapheme having multiple pronunciations.
Why so butthurt?
Most Finns probably know that it’s not pronounced exactly as written 100% percent of the time, it’s just used to differentiate from e.g. English, where similar words can be pronounced in multiple ways, because English is 4 languages in a trench coat. Most Finns also are not linguists, so they may not think about this that analytically.
Not your mother tongue then? Also just an FYI wikipedia is not a reliable or primary source for anything.
Finnish is mostly pronounced as it sounds.
sykoosit tulille :DDD
Key word being “exactly”. With the ng and nk cases being the most prominent, the other differences are quite subtle all things considered
Still there’s a reason why spelling contests aren’t a thing here.
The difference is still extremely minor and you will be understood if you don’t do the sandhi thing. Pori dialect for example doesn’t have it.
True.
It may not be technically correct but any Finnish person can read a word correctly even if they have never seen the word before. That’s why people say “it’s pronounced exactly as written”.