original question: what ethnicity of people do speak [Me√§nkieli]?
answer: finns, sweden finns, tornedalians
answer type: Ethnicity.
auxiliary information: Me√§nkieli is a group of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of the Torne River. Linguistically, Me√§nkieli consists of two dialect sub-groups of the Per√§pohjola dialects, which belong to the Western dialects of Finnish. For political and historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden. In Swedish nowadays, the language is usually referred to as Me√§nkieli also by the authorities; a common, and older, name is tornedalsfinska which literally means "Torne Valley Finnish". Me√§nkieli refers to Torne Valley Finnish and the G√§llivare dialects which belong to the larger Per√§pohjola dialect group. Me√§nkieli is distinguished from standard Finnish by the absence of modern 19th and 20th Century developments in Finnish. Me√§nkieli also contains many loanwords from Swedish pertaining to daily life. However, the frequency of loanwords is not exceptionally high when compared to some other Finnish dialects: for example the dialect of Rauma has roughly as many loanwords as Me√§nkieli. Me√§nkieli lacks two of the grammatical cases used in standard Finnish - the comitative and the instructive.
The language [Me√§nkieli] is spoken by which ethnic group?