Concept information
Preferred term
krlKarelian
Type
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Language
Definition
- Karelian language (karjala, karjal or kariela) is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Linguistically Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland and some Finnish linguists even classified Karelian as a dialect of Finnish. Karelian is not to be confused with the Southeastern dialects of Finnish, sometimes referred to as karjalaismurteet (Karelian dialects) in Finland. Finnish and Karelian have common ancestry in the Proto-Karelian language spoken in the coast of Lake Ladoga in the Iron Age and Karelian forms a dialect continuum with the Eastern dialects of Finnish. Earlier some Finnish linguists classified Karelian as a dialect of Finnish, sometimes known in older Finnish literature as Raja-Karjalan murteet (Border Karelian dialects), but today, however, Karelian is seen as a proper language. Besides Karelian and Finnish, the Finnic subgroup also includes Estonian and other minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea.
Entry terms
- Karelian language
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- krl
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- krl
ISO 639-3 code
- krl
Notation
- krl
In other languages
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Carélien
French
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carélien
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Karelisch
German
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Karelische Sprache
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careliano
Italian
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Lingua careliana
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Portuguese
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idioma carélio
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carelio
Spanish
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Idioma carelio
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/krl
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