Originally Posted by
ND76
The language does not use the letters b, c, d, q, x or z, and has eight different vowels (a, ไ, e, I, o, ๖, u and y) which are long vowels when they are doubled. There are no articles or prepositions, with suffixes attached to words, such as an n or in indicating possession, or a t or at indicating plural. It was only a spoken language until about 200 years ago.
... and that is the reason Finnish is so logical in it's spelling.
All Finnish words are spelled (and pronounced) letter by letter, so the fathers of the Finnish language found no use for the letters 'c' (which is pronounced in English and Swedish as either a kind of s or k, depending on the word and position), 'z' (which is pronounced 'ts') or 'x' (which is pronounced 'ks'). You are wrong about the letter 'd' though, unless Finland has decided to eliminate words like fifth (viides), sixth (kuudes) or 'rakkaudella' which means 'with love'.