Why do Finns inhale while speaking?
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2021
- Have you ever noticed how Finns sometimes inhale when speaking certain words? Here’s the truth about it👇
This sound may be new to you if you haven’t lived in Finland, but quite often, this is how we Finns say certain words.
To you, it may sound like we are shocked, or scared, when we inhale while saying a word but most of the time it actually means NOTHING😂
It’s just a funny speech sound we sometimes make while speaking Finnish. Like in this video where I’m saying “joo” while inhaling.
Have you noticed this speech sound before with Finnish speakers? 🇫🇮 let me know in the comments!⬇️
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Yo, my Finnish mom would slowly inhale while speaking an entire sentence!! I always wondered what that was about! 😆
Haha I love that! Thanks for sharing😊
As a Finnish I tought it was normal!😂
Probly preparing for the next answer in advance
Now, my freshman linguistics professor told me that no language in the world does this. I've believed a lie for these forty years! I'm so disillusioned!
If you see my other comment, it's very common in Nordic languages, and some other such as Mongolian, languages in the Philippines and Togo. It's called «ingressive sound».
Yes! Marco has left a great comment below about the ingressive sound. Perhaps 40 years ago there wasn't much understanding around it yet!
Icelanders also do it.
And swedes
I think what he ment was that we have not found a language where that phenomenon is meaningfull and help distinguish two sounds
It is one of the things I noticed about my Finnish wife right away. She told me it was just something Finns did 😂
Thank you for the comment!
It’s an interesting linguistic feature of Scandinavian languages (and Finnish as well) which we learned about in Linguistic courses. It’s actually a really cute thing because it’s almost the same as babies inhale during their first 6 months when they produce their first sounds.😊
Thank you for sharing! 🧡
The Swedes in Norrbotten do the same thing and when I lived there it became how I speak Swedish.
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It sounds so cute💗
Aww, thank you!
Its like saying “yeah” it kinda means that youre listening or agreeing with the person youre speaking with
Actually, this is something that has been documented in several languages (not many, but several): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound
It seems to be a thing for Nordic languages (especially to say «yes»), but also in Mongolian, and some languages in the Philippines and Africa.
So interesting! Thanks for sharing 🙏
I love how Wikipedia describes it as "paralinguistic."
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Muuten, feel free to correct my Finnish if I made a mistake 🙂
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Ole hyvä! & great Finnish 👏 Glad you've heard this inahaling speech before 😂
I have been living in Finland my entire life and i never noticed this 💀
Your English is perfect. As are you.
We do the same thing in French 😂
Nice to know, thanks for sharing!
Ahahah le "ouais" inversé
do we?
I sometimes do "mitä vittua" with inhale.
Norwegians do the same thing 🤗
Nordic languages in general.
Oh yeah! 👏
Yes, my best friends wife would always do that! It is so strange, I am thinking why are you gasping and when will I ever learn finnish quirks :)))
Exactly! That's funny you have experience with it too, now you know there is not an actual problem she is responding too 😂
icelandic has this thing aswell
Amazing!
I guess it's just that the words we do this with are so simple that it's very easy to say while inhaling so we don't waste time saying it even if we are inhaling
As a turk myself i can truly confirm, that we dont breath
Thank you so much for sharing!
This is one of those things that many people (in Northern Europe at least) do, but very few think about, so when it's pointed out, people are always surprised it exists. We do this in Norwegian as well, but when I tried to explain it to my other Norwegian friend, he said I was making things up. Possibly because I was explaining it in English (to several people), and this feature is more or less absent from English, with only few exceptions.
Kind of similar thing in Ireland except we take big inhales while we're still talking, just to maximise the amount of words said
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Very interesting though given Scandinavian’s disinclination towards talking unnecessarily, I would think it’s probably not the same reason as Ireland 🙈
😂😂😂 i love it, so finn !!
I like the finnish people :) I like the very interesting language as well. Greetings from Austria.
We do it because our words are so long for example lentokonesuihkuturbiiniapumekaanikkoharjoittelaliupseerioppilas
🤣 good one!
@@HerFinland thanks
WOW my goodness she's really pretty
So introverted we even speak inwards.
oh woah this makes so much sense, my grandmother does this all the time and i was wondering if it had some meaning
Same thing with Norwegians :)
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We do the same thing sometimes here in Iceland 😊 like ... já (yes) and nei (no) and other short words. Best greetings from 🇮🇸🤗 Finland is awesome, been there once for few days, enough time to hear that your language is very beautiful ❤
Im from the Netherlands and we have words that express exhaustion and content, like: hèèèhèèè (I’m finally done) or zoooo (when we are done with a task) I had a Cuban partner who always thought I wanted to talk to him when I did these expressions 🤣
So cute, currently I am working with finnish clients and colleagues ,they are very straight forward and cool❤️❤️❤️we love you....🤩🤩🤩🤩
Aww!!!!! Thank you so much for commenting 🧡
I believe Icelandic sometimes does it too but with whole phrases. And apparently Old English would occasionally do it as well but only in those parts of England that had a significant Old Norse influence. Maybe it’s a cold weather thing?
To us it sounds like you're excited, like 😯" Is that coffee?!! " 😃 If someone got some coffee and you're wanting to find out where they got it. We get excited about coffee here (Seattle area)
Older people/farmers from Cumbria in the United Kingdom do something similar but its more of a 'hyi' sound :D
I’m from the USA and my Danish Grandma did this. I do it too.
Hahah I also observed my teacher inhaled a lot. I thought she had some short breath problem.😂😂
She's gorgeous
We(I)are/am hypnotized by your smile!🌹😘💋💋💋.love from the US.
Sometimes it might indicate we're bored but often it just comes out like that for no reason.
Oh that is the reason, i just recognized it when i have a conversation with native finns before.
We use that in sweden too. The closer you live to the north the more it is used..its a "Yes sound"😊 🇸🇪💛💙🇫🇮
Omg I thought my grandma had a heart attack untill I saw ur vid😂
Can you please tell us about Finnish opinions on friends dropping in unannounced?
I've heard its considered impolite, but Finns seem so friendly and easy going.
Thanks 😊
You are soooo adorable!
Thank you 🤩🧡🇫🇮
Kiitos!
I love it! You might need some extra breaths!
I hear people from Atlantic Canada doing it too.
The only time I met a native Gaelic speaking scottish highlander I noticed they do this too. Most of the remaining Gaelic speaking highland and island people have a lot of norse ancestry
Thank you for commenting!
I’m Finnish, but I don’t know any Finnish. I wish to learn it in the future, though!
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My Grandfather used to do this... and I never quite understood it. Sometimes, when he was pondering something, it sounded like he was talking under his breath, with a soft, "Yuuup yup yup yup yup." All of us kids picked up on it and it kind of turned into an inside joke for us, as if we were pondering, "What am I supposed to do with you?"
We do it in Norway too....
Suomi on Kaunis maa .
Lols am still learning I hope to be there next year.
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Growing up in Alabama where there is a church on every street that is either Baptist or pentecostal it seems, when you attend these churches and listening to the sermon of the fire and brimstone preaching one can't possibly miss how this inhale trait is very prominent.
My Nova Scotian friend told me about this last night and I literally could not stop laughing😂😂😂
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We do that in Swedish too as a “yes” answer but mostly in the northern regions
that doesnt make any sense your language belongs to germany not Finnish weird shit
It's a kind of emphasis... like INNIT? in the UK. It doesn't have a concrete meaning other than to indicate that you are aware of the alternatives.
So interesting! I like it! 🙂
Thank you!!
My mummo especially does this, I’ve picked it up a bit ❤😂
Same with some parts od Sweden
we do that in french too especially when pronouncing oui (wee) which means yes
Iceland as well 😃
Oh really!?
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I think finnish language is not part of indo european language but that jaaa you make it sounds sexy
It’s not weird, it’s adorable.
PS: I just got my results from 23andMe. Nothing was a surprise except, I found out I am 10% Finnish.
That was a surprise. The thought it would show 50% English, 50% Persian.
It came back 49% Persian, 39% English, 11% Finnish.
Time to learn about Finland.
I have studied 6 languages, Finnish wasn’t anywhere on my radar until now.
Being half Persian and Half English, my whole life everyone has assumed I am Italian, or Greek, or Mexican.
Now I get to say I’m Finnish 😂
Hilarious 😂
same in norway
I was always wondering . Thank you. Ahahahahahaha
You are welcome!
Yup!😂
i quess it just fits into finnish bit better than other languages generally.
Thank you for your comment!
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As a Norwegian, we do this too😂
Shuup, its the Österbotten, gullet, it means yes 😄👌
We jusst fucking inhale
Indeed, i noticed. And it´s funny thing.
Thanks for commenting!
Also, they got some really long words. Gotta inhale some time
I have sea in my eye
Jessie pinkman says "yo" for same reason
I am from Austria and some people do that here aswell.
We do it too
I live in Finland and my doctor actually warned me this was really bad for your vocal chords. I don’t even speak Finnish, they just said it was a standard warning they did because so many Finns do it.
We do the same in France
The inhales you do are pronounced.
In Finnish context they are much more subdued and they implicate that some thought are put into answering your question.
We do that in French also actually
Maybe it's a regional thing. I have never seen anyone talking like that in Pirkanmaa nor Kanta-Häme.
Some older Norwegian women do a slightly more subtle version of this.
Its the same in sweden and norway
Yeah. They always say that specially in the joo's 🤣🤣🤣 sometimes scares me lol like did I scared this person ? 😅
Hahaha!! 🤣 Thank you for sharing this! 🧡
It sounds like a mix of a German and Scottish accent to me
Sometimes you can hear that in French too
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because it's friggin cold
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She is stunningly beautiful. I think if I could wind the clock back about 30 years or so I would spend some time in Finland!
Im half finnish but live in Sweden and notice myself doing that sometimes n wonder if I come off as rude 😹
It's just because we can
😂 but it is interesting 🙂 and sounds like Finnish 😁
Thank you soo much! 🤩🧡🇫🇮
Vocal fry 😳 I see
?
I heared icelanders do this as well, maybe its more of a culture thing than a language thing?
Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Faroe Islanders do it too.
@@dan74695 so its all of the scandinav lands
I recently talked (in English xD) with a Finnish man and I didn't note that, is it possible some Finnish doesn't do that?
The video is about how this is common, I never say everyone does it 🧡🙏
@@HerFinland got it! Thank you for the answer and have a nice day! ☺
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Mother’s side of the family come from Skåne province of Sweden and they do this too…must be a regional thing?
Maybe? 🤔
TIL: finnish people also do need to breath :-D
ill do it some times but it comse and goes so far and fast i cant necciserily cant recommen i do but yeas
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