Originally posted by LunarTower
Its among my favorite countries and peoples in the world, Im all Germanic races, so I love Finland, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden & Germany... and England... though thats a screwy country nowadays...
One thing has confused me about Finland though, The Lapp's, I know they we're there before the Arian peoples migrated to Scandinavia, but are they Caucasian? they actually look a bit Asian... Finland has alot of Lappish & Slavic peoples mixed in with the Arian peoples, correct? mayhaps that is why their Language is so much different than Sweden, Norway & Germany...
The Lapps come from the same racial family as the Siberians, who are related to the Mongols. Finns come from the Ladogan area, and it's postulated that they migrated north to the Baltics and Finland some 4000 years ago, in which time divergent evolution occured to the people left in the Ladogan area today. Finnish is not entirely different from the Indo-European languages, and there is indeed a large print left by Finno-Ugric on the Indo-European family. It is an entirely European language in all respects.
The print Finns have left on the Lapps is estimated to be much greater than the one they have left on Finns. Isolated in the farthest reaches of Lappland, they were greatly dependent on trading with Finns living in the south. In this time the Lapps would have probably given Finns many new words, while they themselves began speaking a form of Finnish. Today, the language of the Lapps is something of an archaic Finnish dialect.
Racially, the Lapps are almost completely caucasoid. The imprint of their mongoloid roots is quite strong in many individuals though. Due to intermarriage with Finns, many Lapps have blond or light hair.
Many resemble Finns strongly, but their tell-tale epichantic fold shows mongoloid heritage.
Finland has alot of Lappish & Slavic peoples mixed in with the Arian peoples, correct?
The Lappish mixed with Finns, making the Lapps mostly Finnish. The Finns have always greatly outnumbered the Lapps, who rarely left the north, so the genetic impact of the Lapps on Finns is minimal. Finns haven't mixed to any great extent with any Slavic peoples.
Finns are quite genetically distinct from other Europeans, even Estonians.
http://www25.brinkster.com/humanraces/calc/haplo_profiles.asp?popid=7&dbname=ychroms
This genetic distance chart shows that Finns are 61 points away from Russians. Norwegians are 31 points away from Indian Brahmins (the most dark)! Norwegians are also genetically closer to every Eastern European population than Finns are.
mayhaps that is why their Language is so much different than Sweden, Norway & Germany...
The Slavic languages are Indo-European, just like Germanic. Finnish is very far from either language group. Slavic influence on Finnish would make it more
similar to Germanic languages, not different.