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Karelian language

Spoken language
Karelian is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Linguistically, Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland, and some Finnish linguists ... Wikipedia
Region: Europe
Language family: Uralic languages
Dialects: Tver; Livvi; Northern; Southern
Native speakers: 8,753 (Russia) (2020); 11,000 (Finland)
Writing system: Latin (Karelian alphabet) Cyrillic (in the past, 1820–1940, before the Latin script was officially adopted in 1989)