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Default Re: Sv: Re: Sv: Re: Sv: Re: Shared Ethnic Minorities between Sweden and Finland

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Originally Posted by PeterThaGreat View Post
There's nothing new to that. Several antropological measurements done in the 30's and 40's verify that the Nyland and partucularly Western Nylands Finnishswedes are most Nordid group of the Finnishswedes, as said Ostrobotnians are more of Norwegians, with stronger CM strain, however bear in mind that these people, The swedish in Ostrobotnia have uralic admixture significantly lesser degree than their Finnish-speaking country mates, it's not all about skull morphology or face lenght.
True, and I was only pointing to the original claim of them being snub nosed and round skulled, which I think was very over the top but had some truth to it. BTW IMHO southern ostrobothnia as a whole is mostly unaffected by Uralic admixture.
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