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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
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 ostrobothnian as a whole is mostly unaffected by Uralic admixture.
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Southern Ostrobothnian region has received lot of foreign influence during the centuries. Merovingians, Walloons and so on has landed and settled there. And Southern Ostrobothnia is exclusively Finnish speaking too
Ostrobothnian region instead is 52% Swedish speaking. Central Ostrobothnia has 5,6% Swedish speakers, and for Northern Ostrobothnia I could not find any exact numbers, but the amount of Swedish speakers is rather low.
As for Satakunta, the number of Swedish speakers is minimal and in Finland proper the percentage of Swedish speakers is about 5,8%.
Sources: What else than
Suomen maakunnat - Wikipedia
Anyone can click the language which one finds suitable, though it seems that only in Swedish site someone has had the need to add the percentages of Swedish speakers.