Does anyone know how to speak Finnish or Swedish?

Question

I found out that there is a town in Finland called "Långö," and the thing is is that my grandmother's last name is Lango (without the accent marks), but she lives in Hungary. Is there a possible relationship? Thanks

Answer 1

She could just as easily be Ugandan or Sudanese.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lango

Towns and cities names aren't unique.  How many London's do you think there are in the world?  Dozens, including one in Finland.  Just because two places share the same name doesn't mean that they are related to each other.  That idea is just plain daft.   The name could come from anywhere.  If granny is Hungarian, then the name Lango is probably Hungarian or at the very least Slavic in origins, it's more than likely the Hungarian word for "Smith", "Miller", "Thatcher" or something, named after an old occupation, rather than a placename.  Not that I'm a language expert, but I don't think Finnish and Hungarian are that closely related to each other.

Answer 2

Oddly enough, Finnish and Hungarian are in fact quite close relations linguistically (the 'branch' of language is actually called Finno-Ugric, and is Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, and they're largely unrelated to any other language).

However, the rest of the other answer is correct, and to boot 'långö' looks to be a swedish name, and Swedish is absolutely unrelated to either Finnish or Hungarian.

In Swedish it would mean 'long island' which is not exactly a unique name, there's at least a town and an island by that name in Sweden, and of course there's a rather well known one in the US.