Karelian language

E72966
Finnic language Uralic language minority language

The Karelian language is a Uralic language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Karelian people in parts of Finland and northwestern Russia.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form As subject As object
Karelian 0 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language →
Uralic language →
minority language →
classifiedBy UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger →
closelyRelatedTo Finnish language →
Ingrian language →
Veps language →
endangeredStatus definitely endangered →
family Uralic languages →
surface form: Uralic language family
hasAlphabetStandard Karelian Cyrillic alphabet →
Karelian Latin alphabet →
hasDialect North Karelian →
Olonets Karelian →
South Karelian →
Tver Karelia →
surface form: Tver Karelian
hasLoanwordsFrom Finnish language →
Russian language →
hasOfficialStatusIn Russian Republic of Karelia →
surface form: Republic of Karelia
hasVowelHarmony yes →
historicalContactWith Finnish language →
Russian language →
historicalRegion Karelia →
isMutuallyIntelligibleToSomeExtentWith Finnish language →
Ingrian language →
languageCodeISO639-1 (none) →
languageCodeISO639-2 krl →
languageCodeISO639-3 krl →
morphologicalType agglutinative language →
numberOfCasesApproximate 14 →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Finland →
Russia →
regulatingBody Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre RAS →
Karelian Language Society →
sharesFeature consonant gradation with Finnish →
spokenBy Ingrian Finns →
surface form: Karelian people
spokenIn Finland →
Leningrad Oblast →
Russian Republic of Karelia →
surface form: Republic of Karelia

Tver Oblast NERFINISHED →
northwestern Russia →
standardizationEfforts 20th century →
subfamily Finnic branch →
usedIn folklore →
local media →
oral tradition →
usesCaseSystem yes →
wordOrder SVO →
writingSystem Cyrillic script →
Latin script →

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Finnic language → ancestorOf → Karelian language →
Ludian language → closelyRelatedTo → Karelian language →
Ludian language → geneticRelation → Karelian language →
Finnic languages → hasMember → Karelian language →
Finno-Ugric languages → hasMember → Karelian language →
Uralic languages → hasMember → Karelian language →
Leningrad Oblast → hasMinorityLanguage → Karelian language →
this entity surface form: Karelian
Ludian language → isTransitionalBetween → Karelian language →
Karelia → language → Karelian language →
Ladoga Karelia → languageHistoricallySpoken → Karelian language →
this entity surface form: Karelian
Ludian language → lexicalInfluenceFrom → Karelian language →
Proto-Finnic language → reconstructedFrom → Karelian language →