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Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i.e. the Balto-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages.

Finnic may also refer to the settled peoples speaking these languages, and their farmer-hunter culture, traditionally living in Karelia, Ingria, Estonia, Finland, Northernmost Norway and Northern Sweden. Finnic used in this way establish the contrast to the akin but historically nomadic Samis, and also to the Slavonics, the Balts, and the Germanic ScandinaviaScandinavia is the cultural and historic region of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which mutually recognize each other as parts of Scandinavia. The collective label "Scandinavia" reflects the culturalns.

According to the Estonian Fenno-Ugria Foundation, the Finnic peoples include (from South to North):

Livonians (in the RigaRiga ( German: Riga, Estonian: Riia, Lithuanian: Ryga), situated on the Baltic Sea coast at the mouth of the Daugava river, is the capital of Latvia and a major regional port and industrial centre. Riga is the biggest city in the Baltic States. The city's-region and along River Daugava)
EstoniansEstonians are a Finnic ethnic group primarily associated with Estonia and the Estonian language. There are around 915,000 Estonians living in Estonia. Notable emigration, diaspora? To be written. History The name "Eesti", or Estonia, is derived from the w (South of Gulf of Finland)
Votians ( River Narva – River Inger)
Ingrians ( Gulf of Finland – River Narva – River Neva – Lake Ladoga)
Vepsians (South-west of Lake Onega)
Karelians ( Gulf of Finland – Lake Ladoga – Lake Onega)
Finns (North of Gulf of Finland)

It is debated[1] whether or not the Chudes (mentioned by Jordanes 550 A.D.) were an unidentified Finnic tribe or whether a Finnic group might be considered to be the original Chudes. It has also been considered whether or not Russian chud is borrowed from Sami or vice versa.

History

The farming Finnic peoples are believed to have inhabited parts of Balticum before the first millennium. Maybe due to the Germanic and Slavonic Völkerwanderung, maybe due to other reasons, they seem to have migrated into the inland of present-day Finland and Karelia in the first millennium. In the first centuries of the second millennium, they reached the Gulf of Bothnia where their descendents today speak Meänkieli. After the Great Plague, a larger immigrant wave swept northern Scandinavia in the 16th– 18th centuries, spanning to Lake Vänern in the south and to the Arctic Sea in the north. While their descendants in the rest of Scandinavia have assimilated, they remain as a distinct minority in northern Norway, where they recognize themselves as Kvens or Kvener.

Ethnic groups Finnic peoples

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FinnicFinnic Fennic sometimes Baltic Finnic may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. the Balto-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages. Finnic may also refer to the settled peoples speaking these languages, and their f

FinnicizeFinnicization is the changing of one's personal names from other languages (usually Swedish) into Finnish. During the era of National Romanticism in Finland, many people, especially Fennomans, finnicized their previously Swedish names. Many of these peopl

Finnic/tempFinnic refers to the large Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric language, including Finnish, Estonian, Permian, Sami language amongst others, but not Hungarian language. The major languages are Finnish and Estonian. Most of the other languages are endangered.

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