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Torne Valley district and west from there.
Tornedalians are a
recognized national minority in Sweden.
Tornedalians descend from
Finnish peasants who arrived...
- are
spoken on the
Finnish (Finnish),
Swedish (Meänkieli—spoken by the
Tornedalians) and
Norwegian (Kven)
sides of the borders.
There also used to be minorities...
-
language in Sweden. The
people who
speak it are
often referred to as
Tornedalians,
although this term
could also be
defined as
referring to
people living...
-
Museum is
located in Vadsø.
Birkarls Forest Finns Kvenland Sámi
people Tornedalians [1] "Endelig et
felles flagg for kvenene" (in Bokmål) "Finnish, Kven"...
- was created.
These Finnish-speakers are
chiefly categorized as
either Tornedalians originating at the Finnish–Swedish
border in the far north, or Forest...
-
subgroups of Finns.
These include the
Kvens and
Forest Finns in Norway, the
Tornedalians in Sweden, and the
Ingrian Finns in Russia. Finnish, the
language spoken...
- Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians. In some
cases the Kvens, Ingrians,
Tornedalians and
speakers of Meänkieli are
considered separate from the Finns. The...
- from
standard Finnish.
According to the
Swedish National ****ociation of
Tornedalians, 70.000
individuals are able to
understand Meänkieli, at
least to some...
- the year. The
culture of the Sami people, the
national minority group Tornedalians and the
conservative Lutheran Laestadian movement is
prominent in the...
- are a
distinct group from the
other Finnish groups in Scandinavia: the
Tornedalians along the Swedish-Finnish border, the
Kvens in the
Northern Norwegian...
