#ingrian

[fluffycloudprincess]

DON'T STOP

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF SÀMI

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF KARELIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF FOREST FINN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF KVEN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF INGRIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF SETO

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF LIVONIAN

DON'T STOP CALLING YOURSELF THE NAME YOUR ANCESTORS SHOUTED WITH LOVE AND BLED FOR !!!

(One of the deadliest weapons of genocide is forced assimilation through language and self-identificstion)

[mehilaiselokuva]

i just noticed that "meil" can mean "we" (adessive) in estonian, finnish, veps, AND ingrian. idk i think that's really neat. finnic languages are so unique and yet they're so similar too

I know right!

There are also some dialects of the Karelian language that have meil (when it should be meilä but it gets shortened)

I love talking about the pronouns in the Uralic languages, they're all so similar!

[torillatavataan]

The Finno-Ugric Languages The Disappearing Heritage of Mankind

“The Finno-Ugric languages are dying out. Most of these languages will become extinct in the near future and unfortunately this process is irreversible. Our world is losing its wealth and diversity of cultures and traditions. Humanity forgets its history and becomes monotonous. This video was created to show how different our world can be and to point out the problem of preserving the language heritage of small nations.”

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Ingrian (ižoran keel)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 142

Spoken in: Russian

Script: Latin, 27 letters

Grammatical cases: 11

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, SVO

Language family: Uralic, Finnic, Northern Finnic

Number of dialects: 4

History

1932 - creation of the first writing system

1937 - ban on Ingrian writing

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the script: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s š t u v y z ž ä ö.

Primary stress is always placed on the first syllable, except in certain late borrowings.

Double letters, both vowels and consonants, are long versions of simple ones.

Grammar

Nouns have two numbers (singular and plural) and eleven cases (nominative, genitive, partitive, inessive, illative, elative, adessive, allative, ablative, essive, and translative). There are five different stems to form case forms.

Adjectives inflect the same way nouns do. Demonstrative pronouns are used instead of personal pronouns for inanimate subjects and objects.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, person, and number. There are two infinitives.

Dialects

There are four dialects: Hevaha, Soikkola, Oredezhi, and Lower Luga.

[populusfennicapatriam]

Ingrian Finn Soviet prisoners of war reading Finnish newspapers. September 28th 1942 POW Camp No. 6, Vyborg, Finland.

Vangit, inkeriläis-suomalaiset lukemassa suomalaisia lehtiä. Viipuri, Sotavankileiri 6 1942.09.28

[kielovesi]

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Ingrian Finn / Karelian dresses 

[thekalevatar]

From Ingrian Folk Song (nearly extinct Northern European language)

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 3 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

***** Fun migration fact *****

Many people believe Forest Finns came from Savonia then lived and died in Sweden and Norway BUT that's not true.

Many of us (like my ancestors) fled the persecution we faced and went back to Finland only to keep travelling around it (and other neighbouring countries) and in doing so meeting other now considered minority ethnic groups - in my family this was mainly the Sàmi, Karelians and Ålanders