[Snowball-discuss] Finnish vowels

[Martin Porter]

Hi Blake!

The point is that Finland was under Swedish control for a century or more (I
do not recall the exact period) and there was a huge influx of Swedish words
into the language. But the Swedish a-ring is not strictly part of Finnish
morphology just as French accents are not part of English, although they
exist in many loan words. A-ring could be added as a vowel to the Finnish
stemmer, but would not significantly affect results.

I left A-ring in the vocabulary samples because my policy has not been to
doctor the vocabularies by removing spelling errors and so on.


>In the Finnish stemmer, it states this:
>
>Finnish includes the following accented forms,
>=E4   =F6
>The following letters are vowels:
>a   e   i   o   u   y   =E4   =F6
>
>However, I believe that '=C5' (A with a volle) is also in their alphabet=20
>(albeit uncommonly used).  Please refer to=20
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_alphabet.
>
>Thanks,
>Blake Madden