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Originally Posted by SoulsInMotion
I'll have a listen when I'm more awake.
My father's side of the family is from around Lake Ladoga going back a few centuries. Honestly I know nothing of this Finnish vs Saami thing going on either. Others brought it up to me here but I haven't had energy to get into it.
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Just as well then.
Of course Saami has to have their rights, but sometimes the line separating Finns from Saami is not that clear.
Here 2 simple pictures showing different peoples genetic closeness/relatedness to Saami:
SA=Norwegian Saami,
FI=Finns,
SWE=Swedish and
NO=Norwegians etc. etc.
(NO6 is half Norwegian–half North Saami & SWE7 and SWE11 are Swedish Saami).
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f2XjRgVoy6...1600/Finns.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ukNMoBHLSY...ndinavians.jpg
You would most likely sit in the Karelian cluster. Lake Ladoga was a proto-Saami area, some moved up North and became ‘Saami’ – others stayed.
Just imagine if they had used Finnish Saami there as the reference SA-population instead of Norwegians - how close would we then be on the plot!
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