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In the post linked by the OP, Ingrians (85%), North-Eastern Finns (81.7%), and Karelians (79.9%) all had a higher frequency of light-colored hair (classes 1 + 2 + 3 + 4) than the group labeled as simply "Finnish" (77.2%). Ingrians are not really a distinct ethnicity, but they are an Eastern Finnish population that moved to the area of Ingria in the 17th century.Originally Posted by XenophobicPrussian
Population 1+2+3+4 1+2+3 Curonian 100 70 Estonian 86 34.5 Votic 85.4 26.8 Ingrian 85 22.5 North-West Russian (Ostrów) 84.7 48.9 Finnish (North-East) 81.7 26 Mordvin (Teryukhan) 81.2 21.8 Karelian 79.9 25.7 Mordvin (Karatai) 77.8 20.4 Finnish 77.2 30.2 North Latvian (Limbazi) 75.8 33.8 Swedish-Finnish 75.7 21.3 Izhorian 71 23.7 Komi-Zyrian 70.2 18.5 Erzya 66.5 19.9 Moksha 63.3 16 Vepsan 62.5 20.2 Komi-Permyak 61.3 14.5 Russian (Volga-Ural) 60.7 13.2 Livonian 56.6 15.1 Udmurt 54 16.7 Saami 52.7 10.3 Udmurt (Besserman) 51.6 13.7 Mari 46.3 7.6 Chuvash 34.8 4.7 Tatar 32.2 4.5 Mansi 30.1 2.7 Khanty 24.4 2.2 Bashkir 17.3 0.6
In the table above, Estonians are the blondest Baltic Finnic population by either definition of being blonde.Originally Posted by XenophobicPrussian
The post linked by the OP also includes data for eye shape. Estonians are more Mongoloid-shifted than the three Finnish groups (Finnish, Finnish (North-East), and Ingrian) in all three metrics, apart from the "Finnish (North-East)" group having a higher prevalence of a "Mongol fold" (3.5%) than Estonians (2.3%). Then again, is Sápmi or Mari El a nation?
Population Inner eyelid
fold strength
3 = strong,
0 = missing% lack inner
eyelid fold% lack
Mongol foldKhanty 1.89 5.4 82.6 Mansi 1.8 8 81.4 Bashkir 1.7 5.7 89.1 Mari 1.58 10.3 86.3 Komi-Permyak 1.53 12.1 97.2 Chuvash 1.51 11.6 87.7 Udmurt (Besserman) 1.45 9.4 96.4 Komi-Zyrian 1.45 14.1 95.7 Izhorian 1.45 14 98 Udmurt 1.44 14.9 91.1 Tatar 1.37 14.9 87.3 Estonian 1.36 14.5 97.7 Finnish 1.35 16.2 98.1 Vepsan 1.34 13.9 98.2 Finnish (North-East) 1.34 18.9 96.5 Erzya 1.32 16.3 94.9 Swedish-Finnish 1.29 17.1 98.3 Finnish Saami 1.28 22.9 93 Karelian 1.24 21.3 98.2 Russian (Volga-Ural) 1.21 20.7 98 Mordvin (Karatai) 1.2 21.6 90.8 Moksha 1.13 30.3 92.6 Lapland Komi 1.1 31.7 95.2 Mordvin (Teryukhan) 1.08 23.1 98.1 Ingrian 1 29.4 100 Votic 0.97 31.7 98.4 North Latvian (Limbazi) 0.9 15.2 - Livonian 0.88 40.8 - North-West Russian (Ostrów) 0.78 39 -
The so-called "mixed" colors on the Bunak scale are also light-colored (green or gray), apart from maybe color 5.
Class 2 ("dark") includes 1 (black), 2 (dark brown), 3 (light brown), and 4 (yellow). Class 1 ("mixed") includes 5 (dark-mixed), 6 (green), 7 (mixed gray-green), and 8 (gray with a ring). Class 0 ("light") includes 9 (gray), 10 (gray blue), 11 (light blue), and 12 (dark blue).
Anyway, 2% seems like a too low figure for the prevalence of brown and black eyes among Finns. Maybe the classification of eye color was not actually based on the Bunak scale, but class 2 only included black eyes, and brown eyes were included in class 1 or something. Even Khanty have 54.3% "mixed" (class 1) and 42.4% "dark" (class 2) eyes, and Bashkirs have 49.6% "mixed" (class 1) and 41.2% "dark" (class 2) eyes.
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