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	World congress on language policies
		Karelian was replaced by Finnish in Kare-lian schools of the Karelian Republic and by Russian in the Karelian schools of Tver Re-gion.
		It provided for the use of Karelian as a language of the local administration in the areas with compact Karelian population as well as in the spheres of education and culture.
		The Russian language is assigned the sole state language status with Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish acquiring a status of regional languages.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller3/Krjuchkova.html (1626 words)

	Karelian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Karelian language is a variety closely related to Finnish, with which it is not necessarily mutually intelligible.
		It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is distinguished from standard Finnish by some important extensions to the phonology and the lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century Finnish.
		Karelian is spoken in the Russian Republic of Karelia, and also by some 5,000 speakers in Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karelian_language (758 words)

	Karelians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tension between the Lutheran Swedish government and Orthodox Karelians triggered a population movement from the Swedish Karelia towards the region of Tver in Russia, forming the Tver-Karelian minority.
		The Karelian language is very closely related to the Finnish language, and particularly by Finnish linguists seen as a dialect of Finnish, although the variety spoken in East Karelia is usually seen as a proper language.
		Karelian culture and language was a major inspiration for the Fennoman movement, and the unification of East Karelia (under Russian sovereignty) with independent Finland was a major political issue in 20th century Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karelians (790 words)

	Finnish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The speakers of Karelian language in Russia and of Meänkieli in Sweden are typically considered oppressed minorities.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
		The South-Eastern dialects (kaakkoismurteet) are spoken in South Karelia, on the Karelian Isthmus and in Ingria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_(language) (5856 words)

	Finnish_language
		It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden and N orway.
		The South-Eastern dialects (kaakkoismurteet) are spoken in South Karelia, on the Karelian Isthmus and in Ingria.
		The language spoken in the parts of Karelia that have not historically been under Swedish or Finnish rule is usually called the Karelian language, and it is considered to be more distant from stardard Finnish than the Karelian dialects.
	en.filepoint.de /info/Finnish_language (6261 words)

	Finnish language information - Search.com
		It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
		The speakers of Karelian language in Russia and of Meänkieli in Sweden are typically considered oppressed minorities.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
	www.search.com /reference/Finnish_language (5798 words)

	Karelian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Karelian is a Finno-Ugaric language spoken by about 118,000 people mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia, and also in Finland.
		Karelian is official considered a dialect of Finnish in Karelia, though there are moves to have it recognised as a second language.
		It was written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the language is thought to be an archaic form of Olonets Karelian, which is also known as East Karelian or Liwi and is spoken along the Olonka River in the Republic of Karelia.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/karelian.htm (256 words)

	Barentsinfo : Ulapland.fi/Kotisivut/Barents portal/Content by Category/Indigenous people/Veps
		The loss of language is also a reality for the Karelians, since only 51.5% of them considered Karelian to be their native language in 1989.
		The number of Karelians and the number of Karelian speakers both decreased during the Soviet era, mainly because the language was not taught in schools.
		The Finnish language has the status of an official language after Russian, although the Finns are late newcomers in the Republic of Karelia.
	www.barentsinfo.org /?deptid=15095 (582 words)

	HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - KARELIA
		The Karelian Labour Commune was formed in 1920, with Finnish as the language of administration and education, in accordance with the Tartu peace agreement.
		Based on the census of 1989, 47.9% of the Karelians in the Soviet Union indicated their mother tongue to be Karelian, 45.5% Russian, and 6.6% some other language; in the whole Russian Federation the numbers were 48.6%, 46.3%, and 5.1%, respectively.
		Rural Karelians are the Karelians’ hope of survival as a nation, but the hopes should be supported by an efficacious national policy, including the creation of circumstances for the proper functioning of the spoken and written Karelian language.
	www.hunmagyar.org /turan/karelia/index.html (916 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Karelians in the Novgorod region live in the district of Valdai and there are Karelians in the district of Lodeinoye Polye in the region of St. Petersburg.
		This Karelian language, which used the Cyrillic alphabet, was introduced to the Karelians in the Karelian ASSR and Tver region in 1938--39.
		The written language in the Karelian ASSR was Russian or Finnish, and Russian in Tver and elsewhere in Russia.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/karelians.shtml (2193 words)

	Karelian language and culture on the Internet
		The dictionary of the Karelian language compiled at the Research institute for the languages of Finland is based on materials collected by Finnish linguists at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century (information in Finnish)
		Karelian ministry of education and youth (in Russian) - See the Concept of the development of the Finno-Ugrian school in Karelia (zip-file).
		Department of Balto-Finnic philology and culture at the Petrozavodsk University - The department consists of two chairs: the chair of the Finnish language and literature, and the chair of the Karelian and Veps languages and literature.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/4280/eng_linkit.htm (1166 words)

	Historical Karelia (Russia)
		Finnish was chosen next to Russian as the official language of the young Karelian ASSR, because, on one hand, Karelian language consists of several quite dissimilar dialects which are, on the other hand, fairly close to Finnish.
		The Karelian language version of the KASSR 1937 Constitution (adopted 15.4.1937) was published in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabet.
		According to the present constitution, Russian is the only official language in the Republic of Karelia despite the efforts of the ethnic Karelians (ca 10% of population) to have their language made co-official.
	www.fotw.net /flags/ru-10h.html (1003 words)

	Karelian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Karelian is a variety closely related to Finnish, with which it is not necessarily mutually intelligible.
		Karelian is of the balto-finnish group of languages ans spoken by around 10,000 in Finland and 125,000 in Russian.
		Karelian Bear Dogs; California Karelians Kennel: Karelian Bear Dogs...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Karelian (110 words)

	Kaltio - Nuoren pohjolan kulttuurikuvastin (KALTIO 3/2003: Santtu Karhu - the Bear's Revenge)
		He is proud to make music in a language that has been haunted, forgotten and despised, and which still carries the mark of a lower class language.
		Their daughter came under the experience in kindergarten that Karelian is not welcome, and she refused to talk the language anymore even at home.
		Nowadays, there are many schools that teach in Karelian in the area, but the language has yet to gain the official status of a minority language.
	www.kaltio.fi /index.php?441 (1278 words)

	Karelian Bear Dogs; Karelia; Karelian people
		To understand the origins of the Karelian Bear Dog and their relationship to their close relative, the Laika, one needs to understand how the peoples of Karelia became divided as ownership of this border area fluctuted back and forth between two neighbors, Finland and Russia.
		Karelians lived scattered across a broad area, stretching from the southeast corner of present-day Finland eastwards to the Karelian isthmus, and in the north from the northern edge of Lake Ladoga to Lake Onega and on to the shores of the White Sea.
		Karelians were two distinct peoples, visible across language, culture, and religion -- Orthodox in the east and Lutheran in the west.
	www.karelianbeardog.us /kbdbreed_people.html (506 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Russia: Legislation
		Article 19 guarantees prohibition of language discrimination, which must be understood in reference both to the mother tongue of an individual and to the language that he/she usually or sporadically uses for expressing him/herself.
		The languages spoken in the territory of the republics, which are not proclaimed to be official, may benefit from the specific linguistic legislation that the respective Republic approves.
		The use of the state language and other languages in the territory of Russia is further regulated by the 1991 Statute on the Languages of the Russian Federation.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=36&TID=1 (3889 words)

	Language - Taking you to PERKELE and beyond!
		Finnish (suomi or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (91.7%) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
		It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden and Norway.
		Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5.49% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
	www.metalfromfinland.com /finland/language (1635 words)

	The bardic villages of Viena in the 1900's
		Karelian families found themselves in an entirely Russian-speaking milieu, and many of the children forgot their mother tongue.
		Before the war, the villages of Viena were exclusively Karelian; thereafter, people moved into the area from other parts of the Soviet Union, in particular Ukraine and White Russia (Belarus), where many of the villages and cities had been partially or totally destroyed.
		Thanks to the courageous and resolute efforts of Karelian writers born in the bardic villages, the chair in the Finnish language was reinstated at the University of Petrozavodsk in 1963, and the
	www.juminkeko.fi /viena/en/1900luku.html (704 words)

	Finnic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Karelian (spoken mainly in Russia &endash; the Republic of Karelia and the Tver region.
		The Karelian language should not be confused with the so-called "Karelian dialects" of Finnish, i.e.
		Ingrian (or Izhorian, the language of the Orthodox natives of Ingria [the vicinity of St. Petersburg]; not to be confused with the dialects of Finnish spoken by Lutheran Finns in Ingria since the 17th century)
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/ims_engl.html (287 words)

	Karelian language -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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...
		The language occurs in two major dialectal forms, northern and southern; the northern, or Tallinn, dialect is the basis of the Estonian literary language.
		The Finno-Ugric languages are spoken by several million people distributed discontinuously over an area extending from Norway in the west to the Ob River region in Siberia and south to the lower Danube River in Europe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044715 (781 words)

	Many Languages of Asterix: Karelian
		"Karelian is an eastern dialect of Finnish language originated from the southeast area of Finland.
		Karelian dialect is still spoken mainly in the eastern and southeast parts of Finland.
		Karelian dialect is different from the Karelia-Aunus language, which is still spoken in the republic of Karelia in Russian Federation."
	www.asterix-obelix.nl /manylanguages/finnish-karjala.htm (135 words)

	New Page 1
		Finnish is not one of the original Baltic-Finnic languages, rather it is a combination of the languages that the Baltic-Finnic tribes spoke in the area of Finland.
		The Karelian Language is very similar to Finnish, in fact it is sometimes considered a dialect of Finnish.
		Karelian is divided into four dialects, Karelian proper which is made up of Northern and Southern dialects and Olonetsian.
	members.tripod.com /Daniel_Kravin/Baltic-Finnicb.htm (2414 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Russia: Language issues
		In the 1930s, when the Soviet Union’s language policy was very active and a number of people in the country were given a writing of their own, the process in Karelia was peculiar in many respects.
		Between 1937 and 1940, Karelian was used as a teaching medium in primary schools, in media, and about 200 books, mainly textbooks and books for children, were published in the language.
		Karelian was replaced by Finnish in schools of the Karelian Republic and by Russian in Tver Region.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=36&TID=3 (906 words)

	Linguistic Perspectives on Endangered Languages - Abstracts
		Nivkh (Gilyak) is a moribund language spoken on Sakhalin Island and in the Amur region of Russia.
		Typically, in the language shift situation a dominant language is acquired perfectly, while the minority language is used less and less and is gradually forgotten: its vocabulary decreases, and the speakers have to insert into their speech words and phrases from the dominant language.
		Kusunda language is one of the endangered languages in Nepal.
	www.ling.helsinki.fi /sky/tapahtumat/el/endabs.htm (19286 words)

	Soome-Ugri Maailmakongress
		In the Tver region the Karelian language is not protected by legislation and its teaching is optional.
		To preserve and develop the Tver dialect of Karelian, it must be studied at the kindergarten and the school and continued to be taught at other, above all higher educational institutions.
		To retain the Karelian language and culture, attention must be focused on youth.
	kongress.ugri.info /eng/cat-274/cat-310/article_id-268 (641 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:KRL
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Northern Karelian is traditionally spoken in Oulu, though decreasingly.
		Southern Karelian speakers were resettled from areas ceded to the former USSR from 1940 to 1944.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=KRL (142 words)

	Karelian Isthmus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Karelian Isthmus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Karelian Isthmus, land bridge in northeastern Europe, between the Gulf of Finland on the west and Lake Ladoga on the east, connecting Finland with...
		Karelian Isthmus - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Karelian...
	encarta.msn.com /Karelian_Isthmus.html (142 words)

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