Karelian

Their language, close to Karelian, is used primarily by members of the older generation.

About 500, 000 Karelian refugees flooded across the new border.

Some people fear Karelian culture and language die out.

It was replaced by the unified Karelian alphabet in 2007.

They play new folk songs, inspired by the rich Karelian heritage.

On it, the 21-member band performs traditional Karelian folk songs.

North Karelian households baked their bread in large ovens several times a week.

The egg is made out of Karelian birch panels set in a gold frame.

Today, the association mainly aim to maintain Karelian culture.

Educational facilities included an elementary school taught in Karelian and a village reading room.

Additionally used as a filling for the traditional Karelian pasty.

The reserve was established in 1931 to study and protect Karelian taiga.

The Karelian question remains a matter of public debate rather than a political issue, since no significant political party supports the idea.

Since 1961 the games have been held together with the Karelian summer festivals around Finland.

The award was given in recognition for the work in supporting the Karelian culture.

But two months later the project was abandoned when Karelian officials could not reach agreement with Moscow.

The company strives to present the plays in such a way that enables even those with little or no knowledge of Karelian to follow them.

These were exploited by the Finnish and Karelian tax collectors.

Its mission was to advance into the southern Karelian Isthmus.

Because his father was an ethnic Karelian, the family was able to permanently reside there.

The platforms and the columns, which widen at the top, are faced with red Karelian granite.

Most probably, it is close to a Karelian proto-language.

The company performs in the Karelian language.

"Karelian Dawn") collective farm was established in the village.

The district occupies the southwestern part of the Karelian Isthmus.

Since 1997, the Tver Karelian have had national and cultural autonomy.

By 1930, Karelian was commonly written in Cyrillic and or the Latin alphabet.

Until the 19th century it is believed that Karelian was only written down by individuals; it was not taught in schools.

Nevertheless, Eastern Karelian is not completely mutually intelligible with Finnish and could be considered a separate language.

Karelian has seen numerous proposed and adopted alphabets over the centuries, both Latin-based and Cyrillic.

The Olonets Karelian is different in many ways and Finnish speakers understand only about a half of what is spoken by the former.

In Finland, Karelian has official status as a non-regional national minority language within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Olonets Karelian has only the triphthongs ieu, iey, iäy, uau, uou and yöy.

Due to post-World War II mobility and internal migration, Karelians now live scattered throughout Finland, and Karelian is no longer spoken as a local community language.

All variants, except the Tver Karelian, are written with the Latin script based Karelian alphabet, though the Cyrillic script has been used in the past.

He was a Karelian who fought the fight of faith for 13 years in Valaam monastery, but finally left it, and in the end founded a monastery at the river of Svir.

Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Eino Hanski's father was Finnish and his mother Karelian; Russian became his main language growing up, but most of his books were written in Swedish.

In the Republic of Karelia Karelian has official status as a minority language and since the late 1990s there have been moves to pass special language legislation, which would give Karelian an official status on par with Russian.

The effort was dropped in 1940 and Finnish (written as always in the Latin alphabet) once again became an official language of the Karelian SSR, while in the Tver region most Karelians were expelled in 1939 and Karelian was banned there.