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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Karelians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The main cultural division among the Finns, that between the East Finnish and West Finnish dialects and culture, define Savonians and (Finnish) Karelians as East Finnish.
The dialect spoken in the Karelian Isthmus before World War II and the Ingrian language are also seen as part of this dialect group although sometimes in Finland wrongly called Karelian dialect.
http://www.internetix.ofw.fi/opinnot/opintojaksot/8kieletkirjallisuus/aidinkieli/murteet/kaakkois.html The dialect that is spoken in North Karelia is considered to be one of the Savonian dialects.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Karelians   (859 words)

  
 Savonian for tourists, short syllabus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Savonian is not as difficult as it is imagined generally.
Savonians themselves are as all the civilized peoples of the world happy, from the fact that the visitor has bothered to learn a word or two on their own languages.
A skill of the Savonian is not merely useful on the holiday trip which is directed at the Savo.
www.cc.jyu.fi /~vuorinen/engsavon.htm   (224 words)

  
 Finns - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
Savonians are known for their humour and puns when it comes to language—even the dialect itself is referred to as "viäntö", "twisting".
According to a joke, "Whenever a Savonian speaks, the responsibility is shifted to the listener".
The dialect is not as different from the standard language as Savonian, but still distinguishably Eastern Finnish.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Finns   (1638 words)

  
 Past Events
The Savonians and Chaos Nomads sign a peace treaty and went forth to eliminate "The Evil From the Swamp".
A weekend long event, where forty players became characters from fact and fiction, past, present, and future, that find themselves in a brand new world and must use their knowledge and resources at hand to survive.
A weekend long event, where seventy players participated in the "Invasion of the Chaos Nomads", causing the Savonians to be driven from the city and Valkenor was left in ruins.
www.angelfire.com /fl/BarkingSpider/Past.html   (630 words)

  
 Karelians - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Karelians of Finland consider themselves as Finns by nationality and Karelians by heritage or as a subnational designation.
Karelians who nowadays move to Finland from East Karelia consider themselves Karelians by nationality.
[2] (http://www.internetix.ofw.fi/opinnot/opintojaksot/8kieletkirjallisuus/aidinkieli/murteet/kaakkois.html) The dialect that is spoken in North Karelia is considered to be one of the Savonian dialects.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Karelians   (653 words)

  
 Finnish- South African Friendship Society
A memorial shall also be erected in Kimberley to commemorate a Nordic troop that participated in the war.
The Nordic troop led by Johan Fygare of Malax consisted mainly of Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnians and Savonians from the Kuopio region.
Lately several large companies have merged, changed their names and logos, so that huge amounts of personalized material, pens, folders and notepaper has to be changed.
www.fi-za.org /en_uutta.htm   (345 words)

  
 Kurds and the Kurdistans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
These Turkish tribes differ from each other about as much as Savonians and Karelians [two Finnish tribes].
Equally well the Savonians and Karelians could be branded as Finland's discriminated proletarians, who is suffering in Helsinki's suburbs.
All Kurds would not like to be characterised as eternal losers and they do not want to mourn their fate and beg for sympathy.
globalpolitician.com /articles.asp?ID=316&print=true   (3710 words)

  
 Who hates who? - Page 4 - jolt.co.uk public forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Everyone else but the Savonians themselves seem to hate the people speaking the Savo dialect, the largest single dialect of Finnish, spoken in Eastern Finland.
Moreover, the Savo people are jolly, easygoing, and they talk and talk, which is a highly undesirable thing for any other type of Finn.
There's a proverb that "When a Savonian speaks, the responsibility is shifted to the listener".
forums.jolt.co.uk /showthread.php?t=395387&page=4   (1519 words)

  
 Sustainability in danger? Slash-and-burn cultivation in nineteenth-century Finland and twentieth-century southeast Asia ...
This difference between the amount of work needed to clear a field and the work needed in slashand-burn cultivation was emphasized in eastern Finland, where the soil is mainly glacial till and therefore stony.
Areas where Savonian and Karelian swiddeners moved were characterized by the lack of easily cultivated clay soil, typical to southern and southwestern Finland.34
In her classic work, Ester Boserup defines productivity as yield per man-hour.
calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3854/is_200204/ai_n9061356/pg_7   (623 words)

  
 TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämiskeskus ry - ICT Cluster Finland Review 2006
The company expects 3000-4000 customers to connect to its WiMAX network, while Mikkeli Telephone has a target of 2000-3000 WiMAX customers.
Southern Savonians are particularly pleased with their cooperation with Intel.
For 35 years Intel has been developing technology enabling the incursion of PCs and the Internet in nearly every home.
www.tieke.fi /in_english/publications/ict_cluster_finland_review_2006/?x18589=22574   (1060 words)

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