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Introduction · Numbers · Pronouns · Verbs

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Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the Karelian language, or as we call it, Karjalan Kiel!

An Introduction to the Language

Karelian is a group of dialects of a Finnic language that is closely related, but not mutually intelligible with Finnish. There are a number of differences between Karelian and the standard Finnish used in Finland. There are a number of modern 19th and 20th century influences seen in Finnish that are not part of Karelian. There have been recent attempts by the Karelian government to decide upon a standard form, but at this point writers simply use their own regional form.

Family

Uralic

• Finno-Ugric
  • Finno-Permic
    • Finno-Volgaic
      • Finno-Lappic
        • Baltic-Finnic
          • Karelian

Spoken in

The Republic of Karelia. This is the region of Russia just to the east of Finland.