Seto will not agree about being Estonian. If you separate Tarto and Mulgi – where is Saaremaa ja Hiiumaa, Noarootsi Estonians with decent Swedish roots (even road signs there are in 2 languages without any memory of the real Swedish language)?
It is better to keep “Estonians” without sub-separation and have a separate Seto group because they are.
Still, I should remark that there is live murre in Southern Estonian (Võro) and the islands (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa). All others have probably vanished.
Those names for the Izhorians are a bit inconsistent. In the Ingrian written language, you would use either ižorat/inkeroiset (for the nation), ižoralaiset/inkeroiset (for multiple people), or ižoralain/inkeroin (for one person).
I would personally use ižorat (and similar), because inkeroiset also includes Ingrian Finns, but both are fine.
Anyway, nice chart!
EDIT: Misremembered something
>Wait, we’re all, Hämäläisiä?
<Always has been.
Historically savolaiset ain’t a mix of karelians and häme unless to some tiny extent. All those diphthongs in savo are mostly likely caused by sami population that was in the savo area that changed their language and mixed with the karelians. Savo dialect is closer to modern karelian language than to häme and other western dialects. You can read more about it from Petri kallio’s research (mostly in finnish)
What do the dates refer to?
Wow, I didn’t know all of them. Really interesting scheme.
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What about Lappalaiset?
Seto will not agree about being Estonian. If you separate Tarto and Mulgi – where is Saaremaa ja Hiiumaa, Noarootsi Estonians with decent Swedish roots (even road signs there are in 2 languages without any memory of the real Swedish language)?
It is better to keep “Estonians” without sub-separation and have a separate Seto group because they are.
Still, I should remark that there is live murre in Southern Estonian (Võro) and the islands (Saaremaa and Hiiumaa). All others have probably vanished.
Those names for the Izhorians are a bit inconsistent. In the Ingrian written language, you would use either ižorat/inkeroiset (for the nation), ižoralaiset/inkeroiset (for multiple people), or ižoralain/inkeroin (for one person).
I would personally use ižorat (and similar), because inkeroiset also includes Ingrian Finns, but both are fine.
Anyway, nice chart!
EDIT: Misremembered something
>Wait, we’re all, Hämäläisiä?
<Always has been.
Historically savolaiset ain’t a mix of karelians and häme unless to some tiny extent. All those diphthongs in savo are mostly likely caused by sami population that was in the savo area that changed their language and mixed with the karelians. Savo dialect is closer to modern karelian language than to häme and other western dialects. You can read more about it from Petri kallio’s research (mostly in finnish)
What do the dates refer to?
Wow, I didn’t know all of them. Really interesting scheme.