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  1. Karelian ( Karelian Proper and Livvi-Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli; Ludian: kard'al, kard'alan kiel'; Tver Karelian: kariela, karielan kieli) is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Linguistically, Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland, and some Finnish linguists have ...

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      Karelians ( Karelian: karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset;...

  2. Ф, ц, щ, ъ and ы were only used in names and loanwords. A version of the Latin alphabet was used for Karelian between 1930-1931 in the Tver Karelian community. Two ways of writing Karelian with the Cyrillic alphabet were proposed and discussed in 1937, and one of them was adopated in 1938. This became the official standard way to write ...

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  4. Karelian is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Linguistically, Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland, and some Finnish linguists have even classified Karelian as a dialect of Finnish, though in the modern day it is widely considered a separate language. Karelian is not to be confused with the Southeastern dialects of ...

  5. Ludic, a minor group of dialects spoken to the southeast of Karelia, is considered to be a blend of Karelian and Veps, a related Finno-Ugric language spoken to the south of Karelia. A four-line fragment written in Karelian dates from the 13th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries Karelian translations of poetry and Russian–Karelian ...

  6. Karelian, is a Finnic language spoken in Karelia, Russia and Finland. It is spoken by Karelians. [1] It is not to be confused with Livvi-Karelian, which is a different language.

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