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northern Sweden and Finland.
Tornedalians were
officially recognized as a
national minority in
Sweden in 2000.
Tornedalians divide themselves into three...
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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...
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language from Finnish.
According to the
National ****ociation of
Swedish Tornedalians, 70,000
individuals understand Meänkieli, at
least to some level. Meänkieli...
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Museum is
located in Vadsø.
Birkarls Forest Finns Kvenland Sámi
people Tornedalians [1] "Endelig et
felles flagg for kvenene" (in Bokmål) "Finnish, Kven"...
- and Bohuslän in the 1600s and
governmental policies regarding Sámi,
Tornedalians and
Finns during the 1800s and 1900s. As part of the
Treaty of Roskilde...
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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...
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Lapland has two
prominent national minorities the Samí
people and
Tornedalians.
Tornedalians specifically being the Finnish-speakers
remaining within the Swedish...
- was created.
These Finnish-speakers are
chiefly categorized as
either Tornedalians originating at the Finnish–Swedish
border in the far north, or Forest...
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plural form Cwenas. The term is used
today by
Norwegian Kvens and some
Tornedalians. All
ancient references to
Kvenland and
Kvens seem to be from Old English...
