WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
Helsinki slang
Videos
Helsinki slang or stadin slangi is a local dialect and a sociolect of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital city of Helsinki. It is characterized by its abundance of foreign loan words not f
Hämeentie, the second longest street in Helsinki, was under construction in 2019–2020. The yellow-blue sign, humorously written in Helsinki slang, say
Hämeentie, the second longest street in Helsinki, was under construction in 2019–2020. The yellow-blue sign, humorously written in Helsinki slang, says: "Cars are gone, soon we walk and cycle. A better Hämeentie is on the way."
Helsinki in the 1890s
Helsinki in the 1890s
Vallila district still boasts wooden houses from the 1910s
Vallila district still boasts wooden houses from the 1910s
Multilingualism
Videos
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are only two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that
Helsinki slang
…From early on Helsinki slang was especially the language of the youth. It could be thought as a social language code, by which the multicultural and multilingual working class youth, a speech community, formed their own sociolect. The initiative for this grew at first from their needs of basic everyday communication…
The frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, with text written in eleven of South Africa's twelve official languages
The frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, with text written in eleven of South Africa's twelve official languages
A multilingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, Serbia, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, an
A multilingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, Serbia, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Pannonian Rusyn
A stenciled danger sign in Singapore written in English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay (the four official languages of Singapore)
A stenciled danger sign in Singapore written in English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay (the four official languages of Singapore)
A bilingual "no trespassing" sign at a construction site in Helsinki, Finland (upper text in Finnish, lower text in Swedish)
A bilingual "no trespassing" sign at a construction site in Helsinki, Finland (upper text in Finnish, lower text in Swedish)