Northern Karelian | |
Familycolor: | Uralic |
Fam2: | Finnic |
Fam3: | Northern Finnic |
Fam4: | Karelian |
Also Known As: | North Karelian White Sea Karelian Viena Karelian |
Nativename: | Vienankarjala |
Region: | White Sea Karelia |
Glotto: | nort2673 |
States: | Russia and Finland |
Minority: | Finland[1] |
Iso3: | krl |
Map: | 2.2a-Karelian-and-Ludic traditional.png |
Mapcaption: | Karelian Proper consists of 1a |
Fam5: | Karelian Proper |
Northern Karelian (also called: White Sea Karelian, Viena Karelian and North Karelian) is a dialect of Karelian Proper, which is itself a supradialect of the Karelian language.[3] Northern Karelian is mostly spoken in White Karelia in Russia, and is spoken in, and Kuhmo in Finland.[4] Northern Karelian is the most mutually intelligible dialect to Finnish Language speakers.[5]
Northern Karelian is spoken in the northernmost parts of the Republic of Karelia, which is called White Karelia and in, and Kuhmo, Finland. Specifically it is spoken in the parishes of,, Kiestinki, Kontokki,, Paanajärvi,, Suomussalmi, Uhtua,, and Vuokkiniemi.[6]
Example:[7]
In Northern Karelian, the š [sh/see] letter is used more than in other Karelian dialects.
Northern Karelian uses the unified Karelian alphabet which was adopted in 2007 to replace the separate two alphabets of the Livvi-Karelian and Karelian Proper dialects.[8]
Majuscule Forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A | B | C | Č | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | Š | Z | Ž | T | U | V | Y | Ä | Ö | ʼ | |
Minuscule Forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
a | b | c | č | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | r | s | š | z | ž | t | u | v | y | ä | ö | ʼ |
Letter | Letter name[9] | IPA | |
---|---|---|---|
A | Karelian: aa | /ɑ/ | |
B | Karelian: bee | /b/ | |
C | Karelian: cee | /ts/ | |
Č | Karelian: čee | /tʃ/ | |
D | Karelian: dee | /d/ | |
E | Karelian: ee | /e/ | |
F | Karelian: ef | /f/ | |
G | Karelian: gee | /ɡ/ | |
H | Karelian: hoo | /h/ | |
I | Karelian: ii | /i/ | |
J | Karelian: jii | /j/ | |
K | Karelian: koo | /k/ | |
L | Karelian: el | /l/ | |
M | Karelian: em | /m/ | |
N | Karelian: en | /n/ | |
O | Karelian: oo | /o/ | |
P | Karelian: pee | /p/ | |
R | Karelian: er | /r/ | |
S | Karelian: es | /s/ | |
Š | Karelian: šee | /ʃ/ | |
Z | Karelian: zee | /z/ | |
Ž | Karelian: žee | /ʒ/ | |
T | Karelian: tee | /t/ | |
U | Karelian: uu | /u/ | |
V | Karelian: vee | /v/ | |
Y | Karelian: yy | /y/ | |
Ä | Karelian: ää | /æ/ | |
Ö | Karelian: öö | /ø/ | |
ʼ | Karelian: pehmennyšmerkki | /ʲ/ |