Where did the people who now live in Finland come from originally? I read somewhere that they migrated from the Ural Mountains area -- and their language is categorized in the family of Turkic languages unlike most of Europe whose languages are categorized as "Indo-European" Does this mean the Finns are originally of Turkic descent? I'm interested in learning more about the Finns.
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Finish, Hungarian and Estonian are all Fino-Ugric languages, originating from the steppes North of the Black sea. These people migrated from that area into Europe at the end of the fist millennium A.D. Indo-Europeans came form about the same place except it was in pre-historic times.
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I examined my mitochondria DNA.I am Greek,I belong to U group,very common in Finland 15 per cent.The movement happened 40000 years ago I think Finns are not Turkic since Turks came from the east after the Byzantine empire
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