03-19-2007, 09:03 AM
Quote:Martin, this might shed some light to the question you made (especially the map 3?):
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/bff/399/wiik.html
Mmm... There is maybe some truth but I can´t take it seroiously when the author write :
Quote:It should be said that the genetically unusual Sami population of northern Norway (who, during the Ice Age, lived considerably further to the south on the North Sea continent), belonged, according to my hypothesis, to the periglacial zone whose languages, at least partially, unified. The unusual genetic quality of these Sami is based on the fact that they had for a long time (perhaps from about 10,000 to 3,000BC) been isolated in western and northern Norway from other northern Europeans, and a series of genetic mutations took place in them.
This is not correct! The Sami populates most of Norge, Northern half of Sverige, Northern half of Suomi, and the Kola Peninsula. Genetically more than 25% of the poulation in Sverige has one or more Sami ancestor.
Again a proof of the danger of mixing Language studies with genetics and nationalism!