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How far back into your country's history could you go without needing a translator? (lemm.ee)
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I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael_Agricola

Agricola's Finnish is reasonably understandable, so about as far as the records go. 1500's or so.

Maybe some linguist might have ideas about earlier history, but that's my guess.