Editing Karelian language (section)

===Official status===
In the [[Republic of Karelia]], Karelian has official status as a minority language,<ref name="minorityref"/> 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 language|Russian]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Koulunjohtaja Paavo Harakka – Esitelmä valtakunnallisilla kotiseutupäivillä|url=http://www.karjalankielenseura.fi/tekstit/kirjoituksia/valtimo082001.html|access-date=2010-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720190312/http://www.karjalankielenseura.fi/tekstit/kirjoituksia/valtimo082001.html|archive-date=2011-07-20}}</ref> [[Karelians]] in [[Tver Oblast]] have a national-cultural autonomy which guarantees the use of the Karelian language in schools and mass media.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Karelian Language and Tver Karelian Cultural Autonomy|url=http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/methodsxi/abstracts/turicheva.html|access-date=2010-07-31}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FINLEX – Asetus alueellisia kieliä tai vähemmistökieliä koskevan eurooppalaisen peruskirjan voimaansaattamisesta|url=https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/2009/956|access-date=2010-06-06}}</ref>