Southern Karelian Dialect
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Southern Karelian Dialect
OR:
Southern Karelian Dialect on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

South Karelian (South Karelian: ) is the most spoken of the two dialects of
Karelian Proper Karelian Proper () is a supradialect of the Karelian language, which is a Finnic language. Karelian Proper is one of two/three Karelian dialects, along with Livvi-Karelian and Ludic. Karelian Proper is a direct descendent of the Old Karelian ...
, and it is spoken in the
Republic of Karelia The Republic of Karelia, or simply Karelia or Karjala (; ) is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia situated in the Northwest Russia, northwest of the country. The republic is a part of the Northwestern Federal District, and covers an area of ...
and in the
Tver Oblast Tver Oblast (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. From 1935 to 1990, it was known as Kalinin Oblast (). Population: Tver Oblast is a region of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno. Much o ...
. South Karelian was also previously spoken in Border Karelia when it was part of
Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
. Many speakers of the South Karelian dialect were evacuated from Finnish Karelia into other areas of Finland during the 20th century, where a number of speakers are still retained. South Karelian displays a higher degree of regional variation than any other Karelian dialect. The Karelian enclave dialects such as Tikhvin, Valday and Tver Karelian are also derived from South Karelian. South Karelian is mainly distinguished from North Karelian by containing the sounds b, d, g, z and ž, which are missing from the Northern dialect of Karelian proper.


Examples

The following example is taken from a 2016 Karelian in
Seinäjoki Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; , formerly ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of South Ostrobothnia. Seinäjoki is located in the western interior of the country and along the Seinäjoki (river), River Seinäjoki. The population of Sein ...
: Southern, Northern and Livvi dialects compared:


References

{{Uralic languages Finnic languages Karelian language Languages of Russia Languages of Finland Indigenous languages of European Russia