[dcminter]

> Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish)

Do you have a citation for that? I know some Swedish and often need to read documents in it and I don't get the impression that it's any more compact than English.

[euroderf]

Any Estonian will tell you that Finnish is similar to Estonian except that it takes twice as long to say anything.

[dcminter]

Finnish is not remotely similar to Swedish, and it's Swedish that I'm skeptical about.