Karelian Language and Culture: a Qualitative User Study of Mobile and Web Games [PDF]
2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021 Abstract Revitalizing endangered minority languages is important from the perspective of preserving cultural diversity. Games and gamified application can provide ways to support learning minority languages and their dialects. We present user experience insights from a small-scale user study conducted for a selection of freely available Karelian ...
Leena Arhippainen, Paula Alavesa
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Half a Century of Onomastic Research in Karelia [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 The article marks the 50th anniversary of onomastic research in Karelia which has brought about 12 monographs and dictionaries, as well as several hundred articles.
Ekaterina V. Zakharova +2 more
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Karelian Toponymy in the State Index of Place Names: Mistakes Correction
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The article tackles the problem that is topical for all areas of Russia with ethnic minority populations: how local toponyms are presented in the State Index of Place Names.
Ekaterina V. Zakharova +2 more
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Analysis of Karelian Dialect Division Based on Algorithmic Clustering [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The article presents an algorithm for clustering dialects by similarity of data in the dialect atlas of the Karelian language (ÐÑбÑÐ¸Ñ , ÐелÑков, ÐÑнжина 1997). By repeating the procedure we get a hierarchy of dialects.
Irina Novak, Martti Penttonen
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Karelian Heritage in the Toponymy of the Southeastern Lake Onega Area [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article focuses on place names of Karelian origin on the territory of Southeastern Lake Onega region and provides linguistic and historical evidence of Karelians’ migrations to the area in question.
Anton I. Sobolev
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Approaching Religion, 2023 A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish.
Viliina Silvonen, Kati Kallio
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Christian Names of Karelians [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The article analyses the forms of Christian names used in the past and in the present on the territory of the Karelian ethnic group’s settlement — in Finland, as well as in Russian Karelia, Tver and Leningrad regions.
Denis V. Kuzmin
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И ’барин’, и ’господин’ – народные наименования нарыва, фурункула, чирья в диалектах карельского языка [Both ’master’ and ’mister’ — Folk Names for an Abscess, Boil in Dialects of the Karelian Language] [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The article analyzes the origins of the popular names of abscess, boil in dialects of the Karelian language, which were extracted from the dictionaries of the Karelian language, samples of the Karelian speech, as well as the authorâs field materials ...
Tatjana Pashkova
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Lexical Interference of Russian and Karelian in the Diachronic Aspect of Language Policy
Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. At the moment the territory of the Russian Federation comprises 138 endangered languages, which determines the relevance of studying the influence of the state’s language policy on the development of the Karelian language.
V. A. Ivanova, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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Use of the Karelian language online: websites in Karelian
AFinLAn vuosikirja, 2022 The use of the Karelian language on the internet has grown strongly over recent decades. The aim of this article is to analyze the visibility of the Karelian language on the internet, focusing on websites using Karelian as the language of the interface.
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