South Karelian dialects, Karelian dialects or Southeast Finnish dialects () are Eastern Finnish dialects spoken in

South Karelia South Karelia (or ''Southern Karelia'', ; ) is a Regions of Finland, region of Finland. It borders the regions of Kymenlaakso, Southern Savonia, South Savo and North Karelia, as well as Russia (Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast). Hist ...

, along with eastern parts of

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(

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and

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). Prior to the

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, the dialects were spoken along the

Karelian Isthmus The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the we ...

and

Ingria Ingria (; ; ; ) is a historical region including, and adjacent to, what is now the city of Saint Petersburg in northwestern Russia. The region lies along the southeastern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordered by Lake Ladoga on the Karelian ...

. However, the South Karelian dialect speakers from the parts of Karelia taken by the

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were evacuated into the rest of Finland where their speech was assimilated into the new environment. Use of the

Ingrian dialects Ingrian dialects () are the Finnish dialects spoken by Ingrian Finns around Ingria in Russia. Today, the Ingrian dialects are still spoken in Russia, Finland and Sweden. In 2010 there were only 20 300 Ingrian Finns left in Russia. The Ingrian di ...

is declining. South Karelian dialects have been influenced by Russian.

Features

Standard Finnish /d/: → - * ''lehen'' * Standard Finnish: ''lehden'' 'leave's' (genitive singular of ''lehti'') Standard Finnish /ts/: → /ss/, /ht/ or /st/ * ''mehtä'', ''messä'', ''metsä'' * Standard Finnish: ''metsä'' 'forest' Inessive ending: -ssA → -s * ''maas'' * Standard Finnish: ''maassa'' 'on the ground; in a/the country' Vowels ''-eä'' and ''-ea'' * ''korkia'' * Standard Finnish: ''korkea'' 'high, tall' Palatalization * ''ves * Standard Finnish: ''vesi'' 'water' Third-person plural imperfect ending * ''tulliit'' * Standard Finnish: ''tulivat'' 'they came' Lack of

syntactic gemination Syntactic gemination, or syntactic doubling, is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian, other Romance languages spoken in Italy, and Finnish. It consists in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant in certain contexts. It may also ...

and

glottal stop The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication, spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic ...

*syntactic gemination ** ''tule tänne'' /ˈtule ˈtænːe/ ** Standard Finnish: ''tule tänne'' 'come here' (2nd-person singular imperative of ''tulla'' 'come') *glottal stop ** ''sadealue'' /ˈsɑdeˌɑlue/ ** Standard Finnish: ''sadealue'' 'area of precipitation' (term used in weather forecasts)

Vocabulary

* a = well * vot = good, well * kehtoittaa = to be tired or bored * sankia = thick * tällviisii = in this manner * lusti = joy * potuska = pillow * most = maybe

References

{{Finnish dialects Finnish dialects

Features

Vocabulary

See also

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