Livvi-Karelian language

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use dmy dates Template:Expand Finnish {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other Template:Infobox ethnonymLivvi-Karelian<ref name=ethnologue16LK>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (Alternate names: Liygi, Livvi, Livvikovian, Olonets, Southern Olonetsian, Karelian; Template:Langx)<ref name=ethnologue16LK/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is a supradialect of Karelian, which is a Finnic language of the Uralic family,<ref name=ethnologue16>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web

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Tatiana Boiko speaks about the Livvi-Karelian dialect of the Karelian language and the VepKar corpus, with subtitles in English. KarRC RAS, 2018.

The name "Olonets Karelians" is derived from the territory inhabited, Olonets Krai, named after the town of Olonets, named after the Olonka River.

History

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Dialects of the Karelian language includes Karelian Proper supradialect, Livvi-Karelian supradialect, Ludic supradialect.

Before World War II, Livvi-Karelian was spoken both in Russia and in Finland, in the easternmost part of Finnish Karelia. After Finland was forced to cede large parts of Karelia to the USSR after the war, the Finnish Livvi-Karelian population was resettled in Finland. Today there are still native speakers of Livvi-Karelian living scattered throughout Finland, but all areas in which Livvi-Karelian remains a community language are found in Russia.

Speakers of Livvi-Karelian may be found mainly in Olonetsky, Pryazhinsky, Pitkyarantsky, and partly Suoyarvsky districts of the Republic of Karelia.<ref>"Karelian Language", at the website about livvic culture</ref> Livvi-Karelian long remained relatively uninfluenced by the Russian language despite the large influx of Russians following the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703.Template:Citation needed

Phonology

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Karelian dialects mapped out, with Number 4 being the Livvi-Karelian dialect.

Vowels

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Consonants

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			plain	pal.
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Alphabet

Livvi-Karelian uses the Latin alphabet and has the following letters in its alphabet, which is called the Karelian alphabet: Aa, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Zz, Žž, Tt, Uu, Vv, Yy, Ää, Öö.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Until 2007, the ü letter was a part of the Livvi-Karelian alphabet, which has been recommended by the Karelian language board to be instead be changed to the y letter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Grammar

Livvi-Karelian and its grammatical cases are quite similar to the Finnish language and other related Finnic languages.

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Common phrases

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Hello! - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

How are you? - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Good night! - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Good afternoon! - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Do you speak Karelian? - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

I'm sorry. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

You're welcome. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

I love you. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Goodbye. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

My name is ... - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Excuse me. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Help! - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Cheers! - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Right. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Left. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Yes. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

No.. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

One. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Two. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Three. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Four. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

Five. - {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}

See also

• Olonets
• Birch bark letter no. 292

External links

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• Oma Mua – a weekly newspaper in Olonets Karelian Template:Webarchive
• Livvi language resources at Giellatekno