Originally Posted by
Laag
After Sweden conquered Ingria, the majority of Ingria's population became Finnish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingria), who outnumbered the native Izhorians about 6-fold by 1897:
The proportion of Lutheran Finns in Ingria (Ingrian Finns) comprised 41.1% in 1656, 53.2% in 1661, 55.2% in 1666, 56.9% in 1671 and 73.8% in 1695, the remainder being Russians,[4] Izhorians and Votes.[5]
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By 1897 (year of the Russian Empire Census) the number of Ingrian Finns had grown to 130,413, and by 1917 it had exceeded 140,000 (45,000 in Northern Ingria, 52,000 in Central (Eastern) Ingria and 30,000 in Western Ingria, the rest in Petrograd).
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As to Izhorians, in 1834 there were 17,800 of them, in 1897—21,000, in 1926—26,137.
Therefore I believe the citizens of Ingria would prefer to be a part of Finland rather than an independent country (or even an autonomous region within Greater Finland).
Ingrian Finnish dialects have perfect mutual intelligibility with other Finnish dialects. This is what the dialect spoken in Moloskovitsa sounded like: http://scripta.kotus.fi/av/kuuntele/8b_moloskovitsa.mp3.
However perhaps Chudia, the land south and southeast of Ingria, would prefer to remain an autonomous territory within the Uralic Confederation:
https://www.deviantart.com/ses-mies/...flag-501831181
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