I'm a young Karelian/Finnish guy. I have never received formal education in any Karelian languages due to a mixture of it being seen as shameful and useless in addition to it not being taught at school in the area we live in. The blog's gimmick is based on translating (mostly English) posts into Livvi Karelian. I run this blog to both solidify my grasp on the language and to just maybe spark someone else's interest in learning too!
I also speak English and Finnish. I can not read cyrillic very well. Mistakes might be made and I appreciate corrections on grammar and such ♡
Karelia is an area situated in Russia in the Republic of Karelia, right by Finland's border, and Karelians are the indigenous people of this area. The Karelian language is part of the Uralic language family and has many different variations and dialects. My family specifically is from the Livvi area (also known as Olonets)
What's that creature in my PFP?
It's a Ladoga ringed seal peeking out of some water! Lake Ladoga is Europe's biggest lake, and it's situated in Karelia. These seals live only in this single lake!
Olen karjalaine da suomelaine briha. Minuu ei ollah virallizestu opastettu karjalan kieles, gu kieli on nähtyh ebäkunnollizenny da hyövyttömänny, dai gu sidä ei tarita školas minun kodipaikus. Blogin tavoittehinnu on kiändiä (enimiten anglielazii) julgavuo livvikse. Pyöritän blogii sego paranduakse minun omua kielitaiduo, taigo jopa virittiä toizii opastumah!
Pagizen myös anglie da suomie. En malta lugie kirillizii kirjaimii hyvin. Virhielöi voinne tulla, da arvostan korjavuksii kielioppiin i muga ielleh ♡
Karjala on aloveh Ven'al, Karjalan Tazavaldus, da karjalazet ollah alovehen alguperäine rahvas. Karjalan kieli ollah suomelas-ugrilaistu suguu da sil ollah monii variatsieloi da murdehii. Minun pereh on lähtözin Livvinkarjalaspäi (anglien kielekse "Olonets")
Mibo elätti minun profil'ukuvas on?
Siinä Luadogann'orpu kurkistau vies! Luadogu on Jeuropan suurin järvi, da se on Karjalas. Nämmä n'orput eläy vai täs järves!
Here I'll collect some resources for learning Karelian (not limited to any specific dialect). You can consider following or even donating to these to help the conservation of an endangered language! Possibly more links to come...
- Karjalan kielen kodi, "language home"- association
- Karjalazet nuoret Suomes, Karelian youth in Finland
- Karjalan Sivistysseura, cultural society, they sell books!
