Classify Meänkieli speakers

[Lemminkäinen]

Meänkieli is a distant Finnish dialect spoken in Northern Sweden. People speaking it have close relations with Saami.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C3%A4nkieli_dialects

https://lauluottaakantaa.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/me%C3%A4nlandnetti.jpg

[Lemminkäinen]

Meänkieli also has a few words that are not found in either Swedish, Standard Finnish or Sami, For example "porista" ( to talk ), "son" ( it is ) and "sole" ( it is not ).
Funny that writers (linguists?) have not heard words "porista" and "son". Those words belonged to a regular Western Uralic language still a couple decade ago. Most people speaking Finnish know f. ex. the meaning "son sitte tupen rapinat".

[Östsvensk]

From what I have read, the Finns in far northern Sweden were SW Finns with Saami admixture.


In Norrbotten, on the contrary, in the valleys
of the Tome and Muonio Rivers, Finnish is still
generally spoken. But the people there are not especi-
ally of Kvaenian stock; instead, as the Finnish in-
vestigator Airila has been able to show with the
help of their dialect, they came from South Satakunda
and the north of Finland proper, probably as early
as the 2nd or 3rd century after the beginning of the
Christian era. The writer has noticed that the folk-
types in Tornedalen remind one strikingly of those
in Abo liin (South-western Finland), which certainly
agrees remarkably well with Airila’s conclusion, based
on linguistic evidence. But in Norrbotten — as also in
South-western Finland — the population is saturated
with Nordic blood and consists to a not inconsiderable
extent of Finnicised descendants of Swedes. There is also
a Lappic race-admixture in the Finnish population of
North Sverige. The writer lias not been able to
study these Finns personally, but it is reported that
many of them show some traces of Lappic blood.
The majority of these Norrbotten Finns do not even
understand Swedish, excepting the educated young-
people. The number of Finnish-speaking persons in
Northern Sverige probably amounts at present to about
30 000. Thanks to our folk-schools and industrial
schools for children the coming generation will be
able to get along fairly well with Swedish, and the
following still better; but it is hardly likely that this
will cause Finnish to die out, especially since Sverige
lias a large and united Finnish-speaking area, bordering
directly on Finland. Neither can there be any valid
reason for a complete Swedification of Swedish Finns,
nor have the Swedish authorities ever dreamt of such
a thing.

The Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation, Herman Lundborg, 1926, pp. 46