Karelia, Karelians and the Karel languages

• Published in: Studia Rossica Gedanensia
• Main Author: Wojan, Katarzyna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego 2024
• Subjects: Karelia; Karelowie; języki karelskie; etnogeneza; Finlandia; Rosja; polityka językowa; Karelians; Karelian languages; ethnogenesis; Finland; Russia; language policy; Dane; karelia*; karelian; karelians; karelsk*
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SRG/article/view/11472; https://doi.org/10.26881/srg.2024.11.08

The article presents the most important identity issues concerning a small, sociolinguistically diverse, geopolitically and culturally divided Balto-Finnic nation – Karelians. The author describes the Karelian ethnic group, emphasizing its inhomogeneity. The paper lists and describes the ethnolects...