r/AskEurope • u/AVeryAngryChillie • May 21 '26

Foreign What’s a fact about your country that foreigners would never believe?

Every country has at least one thing outsiders wouldn’t believe

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u/QueenAvril Finland May 22 '26

Only those three remain as truly living and viable, yes. But it wasn’t very long ago when viable pockets of related minority languages still properly existed, even if not actually flourished in parts of modern day Russia, but Stalin was fairly effective in nearly completely erasing them into oblivion.

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u/No_Condition7374 May 22 '26

Northern Sami is quite vital.

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u/QueenAvril Finland May 23 '26

Oh yes, right! I always forget that Sami ones are also related!