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Karelian Literature and Authors - Including Karelian Proper, Olonets Karelian, Vepsi Karelian, Ludic Karelian, Tver Karelian, and Ingrian ["Olonets Karelian and Ludian are transitional dialects between Karelian proper and Vepsian"].

Literature Web Sites - Karelian [Karelian proper. The Karelians call themselves karjalaiset or karjalazhet in Finnish and Karelian. Their language is karjalan kieli. In Russian, the people are --; the language karelskii]

Sites originating in the Republic of Karelia or elsewhere in the Russian Federation:

Sites originating in the Republic of Finland, or in other countries (e.g., Estonia), but related to the Karelian language - or the literature of Finnish Karelia:

 

Authors Web Sites - Karelian [Karelian proper. The Karelians call themselves karjalaiset or karjalazhet in Finnish and Karelian. Their language is karjalan kieli. In Russian, the people are --; the language karelskii]

Sites originating in the Republic of Karelia or elsewhere in the Russian Federation:

Sites originating in the Republic of Finland, or in other countries (e.g., Estonia), but related to the Karelian language - or the literature of Finnish Karelia:

Literature Web Sites - Ludic Karelian [The Ludic Karelians call themselves lüüdiköit or luudikoit. Their language is lüüdi or luudikiel. In Finnish the people are called lyydiläiset and the language lyydin karjalan kieli].

Authors Web Sites - Ludic Karelian [The Ludic Karelians call themselves lüüdiköit or luudikoit. Their language is lüüdi or luudikiel. In Finnish the people are called lyydiläiset and the language lyydin karjalan kieli].

Literature Web Sites - Olonets Karelian [The Olonets Karelians call themselves liüdi or liügi and livviköit. Their language is livvin kieli. They are called aunuksenkarjalaiset in Finnish; their language livvin or aunuksenkarjalan kieli; The language is called livvikovskii iazyk in Russian]
Authors Web Sites - Olonets Karelian [The Olonets Karelians call themselves liüdi or liügi and livviköit. Their language is livvin kieli. They are called aunuksenkarjalaiset in Finnish; their language livvin or aunuksenkarjalan kieli; The language is called livvikovskii iazyk in Russian]

Literature Web Sites - Vepsi Karelian [Vepsän kieli]

Authors Web Sites - Vepsi Karelian [Vepsän kieli]

Literature Web Sites - Tver Karelian [Tverskaia Kareliia]

Authors Web Sites - Tver Karelian [Tverskaia Kareliia]

Literature Web Sites - Ingrian and Izhori and Ingrian Finns [The original inhabitants (the Ingrians or Izhori) call themselves Vadjalaizõt, inkeroiset (singular, inkeroine), izhorat or izhoralaine or in general maaväki. The Finns call the original inhabitants Inkeriläiset and the later inhabitants who moved to Inkeri from Finland as inkerin suomalaiset. The Russians refer to the original inhabitants as Izhori. The language is known as inkerin or izhoran keeli, or maakeeli. The Finns call the languages inkerin, as well as inkerin suomen kieli for the inkerin suomalaiset / Ingrian Finns] [This site describes the peoples, their self-designations, etc. Another site.]

Authors Web Sites - Ingrian and Ingrian Finns and Izhori [See notes in above section].
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