Torne Valley dialects
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- Torne valley dialects
- Meänkieli
- Peräpohjola
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| Torne valley dialects | |
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| Tornionlaaksonvarieteetti | |
| Native to | Finland, Sweden |
| Region | Torne valley |
| Ethnicity | Tornedalians |
Uralic
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Recognised minority language in | |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Traditional spread of the Western Peräpohja variants, including the Torne valley dialects in blue. | |
Torne Valley dialects (Finnish: Tornion murteet, Meänkieli: tornionlaaksonvarieteetti,[1] Swedish: Tornedalsvarietet[2]) are a Finnic variant spoken in Sweden and Finland. The form of the Torne Valley dialects in Finland are included as a part of the Peräpohjola dialect group,[3] while the form in Sweden is included as the biggest one of the three variants of Meänkieli (also including Lannankieli and the Gällivare dialects), which in Sweden has an independent status from Finnish.[4] Although the independent status of Meänkieli as a distinct Finnic language is sometimes disputed due to its high mutual intelligibility with Finnish.[5]
The Torneo Valley dialects were once fully uniform and old standard Finnish was used by all speakers of the Torne Valley dialects. However, in 1809 when Russia annexed Finland, the dialects on the Swedish side of the border were separated from the ones spoken in Finland. This caused the Torne Valley dialects in Sweden to have been more strongly influenced by Swedish than the Torne Valley dialects in Finland.[5]
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