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Name: Karelian Type: Language Alternate Names: karjala; Karelian proper; Karelisch; carélien; karely; Sobstvenno-Karel'skij-Jazyk; Karely; Karelian Proper; Karel'skiy Jazyk; Severno-Karel'skij; kar΄jalan k΄sel΄; karel΄skij jazyk; karjalan kieli; venäjänkarjalaisten kieli; Russisch-Karelisch; Olonetzisch-Lüdisch Spoken in: Finland, Russia Number of speakers: 35,000 in Russian Federation (1993 Salminen). Population total all countries: 45,000 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 31500 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 128000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: krl Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed) Parent Subgroup: Finnic; Baltic-Fennic; Baltic Finnic; Balto-Finnic; ostseefinnische Sprachen; Ostseefinnisch; Späturfinnisch; West Finnic; Baltic-Finnic; balto-finnois; Balto-Fennic; Fennic; Baltic sea Finnic; Proto-Finnic (bfin) Child Dialects: Southern Karelian; South Karelian; Karelian Proper; Southern; Südkarelisch; südkarelische Dialektgruppe (krl-sou) Northern Karelian; North Karelian; Viena; Karelin Proper; Nord-Karelisch; das eigentliche Karelisch; Karely; Karelian Proper; Northern; Nordkarelisch; Weißmeerkarelisch; nordkarelische Dialektgruppe (krl-nor) Novgorod (krl-nov) Tver; Kalinin (krl-tve) Olonets Karelian; Livvi; Aunus; Aunus Karelian; Olonetsian (krl-olo)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed