The Tver Karelian dialect is a dialect of the Karelian language spoken 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 ...
. It is descended from 17th century
South Karelian speakers who migrated to the Tver region.
Although Tver Karelian descents from
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 ...
, it often contains many differences from other Karelian Proper dialects. The Tver Karelian dialect contains very strong influences from the
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is ...
, especially in the phonetics of the dialect.
A standardized written language has been created for the Tver dialect.
The earliest translation of the Bible in Karelian was made using the Tver dialect in 1820.
Examples
The following example of Tver Karelian is from Zoja Turičeva in 1996:
References
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Karelian language