Siberian Finnish spoken

There is an unique form of Finnish spoken in Siberia, this video has it spoken. There are about 7 thousand Finnish speakers in Russia, out of them, perhaps 100-400 live in Siberia. However, because many siberian Finns are count as Estonians, because they faked their Estonian identity during the Soviet Union to avoid persecution, more Siberian Finns could exist. Original documentary: Creators (in Finnish) Ohjelman tekijät: Heikki Ellonen (suun, ohj, ään), Natalija Shpanko (yhteystoimittaja), Ilona Laurikainen (kuvaussihteeri), Reijo Nikkilä (tuot.), Raimo Hartzell & Juha Heikanen &Taisto Tamminen (kuv). Malker Hamid & Vilho Halonen (ään). Eero Jaakkola (leik). Pirjo Aaltonen (käänt). Eero Saarinen & Jarmo Heikkinen (luk).
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