Ingrians also had contact with the Russian population but it seems that Soikkola Ingrian was less influenced by Russian than Votic.
The core of the research are the wordlists for three minor varieties: a dialect of the Votic language, and two dialects of the Ingrian language.
The inner and a Southern part of the Gulf of Finland were populated by Finno-Ugric ethnic groups, Votians and
Ingrians, which are more or less extinct as ethnic groups.
Most of the "New Russians" are ethnic Finns and
Ingrians and their family members.
We also owe our thanks to Estonian Baltic Germans, Russians,
Ingrians, Jews, Latvians, and people of many other ethnicities who lived here and who did not spare themselves in the fight for one common Estonia," he added.
The single biggest identifiable group is Russians of Finnish ancestry (Ingrians and Karelians).
The existing special regime for the immigration of Ingrians is to be phased out.
A second research group could work with Russian researchers to establish the fate of
Ingrians who were returned to the Soviet Union, Ylikangas said.
Finland, small though it may be, had aspirations toward a Greater Finland, a union encompassing the
Ingrians, Vepsians, and Karelians subdued within the great Soviet Empire.
After 1944, the area on the eastern bank of the Narva River, earlier populated mainly by Finns,
Ingrians and Russians, has belonged to Russia.
The Finnish president spoke at the ceremony, saying that although the
Ingrians have been given the option to emigrate to Finland, many of them will prefer to live in their home region and therefore it is natural for Finns to help them in Russia, too.
We have selected Speaker 1 as a typical representative of contemporary
Ingrians, who clearly opposes the two types of geminates, and measured the duration of segments in the whole set of recorded test words (altogether 174 words).