Karelian language - Karelian language Karelian is a variety closely related to Finnish. It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is chiefly distinguished from standard Finnish by the lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century Finnish. The Karelian language does not have a standard written form. Karelian has three main dialects: Karelian Proper, Olonets and Ludic. The latter is sometimes classified as a dialect of Veps. The Karelian language is by Finns usually considered a dialect of Finnish, as it is perceived to differ only slightly from standard-Finnish. Others, for instance many foreign linguists and some people in Estonia and Russia, consider the Karelian variety a language of its own (although almost extinct), similarly to how the dialects of Ingria by Finns often are considered dialects of.
Karelians - a Finnic people inhabiting the Karelia, Kola Peninsula and speaking Karelian language. External Link http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/karelians.shtml.
Veps language - Veps language Veps belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages. According to Soviet statistics 8,000 people were self-designated Veps at the end of the 1970s. The statistics is however considered extremely unreliable by most non-Soviet linguists, not changing the situation that the language must be understood as in stern threat of extinction. According to the location of the people, the language is divided into three main dialects: Northern Veps (at Lake Onega to the south of Petrozavodsk, to the north of river Syväri), Central Veps (in the Petersburg region), and Southern Veps (in the Vologda province). The Northern dialect is somewhat more distinct than the others, but it is nevertheless possible for the members of the different dialect groups to understand each other. The speakers.
Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PH -- Uralic and Basque languages - This is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PH. Contents PH 1-5490 Uralic.Basque 1-87 General 91-98.5 Finnic.Baltic-Finnic 101-405 Finnish 501-1109 Other Finnic languages and dialects 501-509 Karelian 521-529 Olonets 531-539 Ludic 541-549 Veps 551-559 Ingrian 561-569 Votic 581-589 Livonian 601-671 Estonian 701-735 Lapp 751-785 Mordvin 801-836 Mari 1001-1079 Permic 1101-1109 Udmurt 1201-1409 Ugric languages 3801-3820 Hungarian 2001-3445 Samoyedic languages 5001-5490 Basque Sources Library of Congress Classification Outline.
Karelia (republic) - in Finnish. History Historically Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland. In the 16th century south-eastern Karelia was annexed to Sweden, and then lost again during the first half of the 18th century. In 1923 the province became the Karelian ASSR. From 1940 it was made into the Karelo-Finnish SSR but was changed back to a ASSR in 1956. During the Continuation War in 1941 Finland occupied parts of the area but was forced to withdraw in 1944. The Republic of Karelia was formed on November 13, 1991. Geography Present-day Karelia is situated between Lake Ladoga in the southwest and the White Sea in the northeast. Culture See also: Saami music. The Karelian language is close to Finnish, and has in recent years become considered.
Karelia (disambiguation) - in Finland Republic of Karelia - an autonomous republic in Russia (Eastern Karelia) Karelo-Finnish SSR - a Soviet Republic (1940-1956) Karelian language - a Finno-Ugric language Karelia Suite of classical music by Jean Sibelius Karelia Software, LLC - software company with a headquarters in Alameda, California, that claims to pioneer the desktop web application market. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Juho Kusti Paasikivi - life he moved in the inner circles of Finland's politics. He supported greater autonomy for Finland, an independent Cabinet (Senate), and resisted Russia's panslavic intentions to make Russian the only official language everywhere in the Russian Empire. He belonged, however, to the more complying Fennoman Party, opposing radical counter-productive steps which could be perceived as aggressive by the Russians. During the First World War Paasikivi began to have doubts about the Fennoman Party’s obedient line. After the March Revolution in Russia 1917 Paasikivi became part of the council that begun to formulate new legislation. Initially he supported increased autonomy within the Russian Empire, in opposition to the Social Democrat Cabinet (Senate) which in vain strived for more far-reaching autonomy, but after the Bolshevik October Revolution Paasikivi championed full independence – albeit.
Izhorian - Neva rivers. In 1989, 820 self-designated Izhorians, thereof 302 speakers of their Finnic language, were registred. The language, close to Karelian, is used primarily by members of the older generation. It is bound to extinction..
History of Finland - and east, can be traced back to the 8000 BC. After 6500 BC the so called "Suomusjärvi culture", a hunter-gatherer society, spread over most of the country. Around 4200 BC the "Comb ceramic culture", known for their pottery, took over. This marks the beginning of the neolithic for Finland. It is believed that the proto-Finnish language spread to Finland at this time. Finnish and Sámi (Saami) — the language of Lapland's small indigenous minority — are both Finno-Ugric languages and are in the Uralic rather than the Indo-European family. The closest related language still widely in use is Estonian. After 2500 BC immigrants from south of the gulf of Finland settled in southern Finland. Their culture differed from the older as they used agriculture and animal husbandry. The neolithic cultures survived.
Finnish - and Sweden-Finns It can also indicate citizenship or a similar belonging to the state of Finland It can indicate the mother tongue of a speaker, see Finnish (language) and Sweden-Finns (often in contrast to Finns speaking Swedish as their mother tongue, see Finland-Swedish and Finland's language strife) It can indicate the Finnish language itself, and often the closely related varieties spoken in Finland's neighbourhood, see Finno-Ugric languages: Veps, Izhorian, Ingrian, Karelian, Meänkieli [1] Finally, it can be a false translation from Scandinavian languages, where the concepts of Finns and Saamis haven't always been distinguished: Today Finn in the Norwegian language means a Saami..
Finnish Orthodox Church - Orthodox Christianity was introduced to Finland during Russian rule in the 19th century. In Helsinki, Viipuri and Karelian Isthmus, Orthodoxy was associated with the country's ruling elite, however many rural Finns, Saami and Karelians where also members of the Orthodox Church. Shortly after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917, the Finnish Orthodox Church declared its autonomy from the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1923, the Finnish Church completly separated from the Russian Church, becoming an autonomous part of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. The Gregorian Calendar was also adopted. Other reforms introduced after independence include changing the language of high mass from Church Slavonic to Finnish and the transfer of the Archepiscopal seat from the Karelian and Russian speaking city of Viipuri to the Finnish speaking city of Sortavala. Until World.
Cyrillic alphabet - Kazakh and Gagauz; Ossetic and Tajik (Indo-Iranian tongues); Moldovan (a Romance language); Udmurt, Saami and Mordvin (Finno-Ugric language); and Abaza, Abkhaz, Adygei, Aisor, Altai, Avar, Balkar, Bashkir, Buryat, Chechen (1940-1991), Chuvash, Chukchi, Dargwa, Dungan, Evenks, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Karelian, Khakas, Khanty, Komi, Koryak, Kumyk, Kurdish (living in former USSR), Lak, Lezghian, Mansi, Mari, Mongolian, Nanai, Nenets, Nogai, Oriat, Romany (in Serbia and Montenegro and former USSR), Selkup, Tabasaran, Tat, Tuva, Udekhe (Udege) and Yakut languages), as well as constructed languages Slovio and Lingua Franca Nova. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cyrillic alphabet for Russian 2 As used in various languages 2.1 Slavic languages 2.1.1 Russian 2.1.2 Ukrainian 2.1.3 Belarusian 2.1.4 Bulgarian 2.1.5 Modern Serbian since 19th century 2.1.6 Macedonian 2.2 Non-Slavic languages 3.
Winter War - a few weeks they had divided the country between them. The countries in the neighbourhood realized their fate could be the same. During the fall of 1939 Stalin demanded that Finland and the Baltic countries allow the Soviet Union to set up military bases on their soil - supposedly for defensive purposes. The Finnish government felt it had little alternative but to refuse Stalin's demands; on November 30 the Soviets attacked with 23 divisions of 450,000 men who quickly reached the Mannerheim Line. Formerly classified Soviet archives have revealed documents proving that the war was based on a bogus border incident in which the Soviets fired on and killed their own soldiers, blaming it on the Finns and replying in kind. Stalin expected to conquer the whole country by the end.
Meänkieli - with, Finnish. It is one of the five minority languages officially recognized in Sweden. Meänkieli literally means "our language". Meänkieli belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is chiefly distinguished by a lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century standard-Finnish, in addition to, like the situation for Finland-Swedish in Finland and Karelian language in Russia, a set of words which are close loanwords from Swedish, for instance from the fields of Laws and governmental administration. Meänkieli lacks two of the declensions used in standard-Finnish, the comitative case and the instructive case. Meänkieli is spoken by some 40-70,000 people in the Torne Valley in northern Sweden along the border to Finland, and additionally by the population on the Finnish side of the border. In Finland it is seen as a variety.
Mikael Agricola - the capital on the Finnish side of the Swedish realm, and became a scribe in the bishop’s office. In Turku he became familiar with ideas of humanism and reformation. He was presumably ordained for priesthood in 1531. In 1536 the bishop of Turku sent him to study in Wittenberg in Germany. He concentrated on lectures of Melanchthon, who was expert in Greek, the original language of the New Testament. Agricola was already thinking about a Finnish version of the Bible. In Wittenberg he also met Martin Luther. In 1539 Agricola returned to Turku and ended up as a rector of Turku University till 1548. At the time the king of Sweden Gustav Vasa had confiscated the property of church when he was consolidating his power but also supported the reformation. 1546.
Music of Finland - of Finland Much of the music of Finland is influenced by Karelian traditional tunes and lyrics, as comprised in the Kalevala. Karelian culture is perceived as the purest expression of the Finnic myths and beliefs, uncontaminated by Germanic influence, in contrast to Finland's position between the East and the West. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Folk music 2 Early Christian music in Finland 3 Opera 4 Revival in the modern age 5 Saami music 6 Biggest radio stations 7 References Folk music Common instruments include trumpets, clarinets, horns and whistles, performed by virtuoso's like Leena Joutsenlahti, Teppo Repo and Virpi Forsberg. More traditionally Finnish instruments include the kantele is a traditional Finnish musical instrument, a chordophone, and was used in the Kalevala by the hero Väinämöinen. The jouhikko is another instrument.
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Valaam Monastery - between Russians the Swedes pushed the border eastwards in the 16th century: In 1578 monks and novices were killed beaten by the Lutheran Swedes. The monastry was desolated between 1611 and 1715 after another attack, the buildings being burnt to the ground, and the Karelian border between Russia and Sweden being drawn through the Lake. In the 18th century the monastery was magnificently restored and in 1812 it came under the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1917 Finland became independent, and the Finnish Orthodox Church became autonomous under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, as previously it was a part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Valaam was the most important monastery of the Finnish Orthodox Church. The liturgic language was changed from Church Slavonic to Finnish, and the litrugic calendar from.
Kanuri language - Kanuri language Kanuri is a Nilo-Saharan language which is spoken by about 4 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The ISO 639-2 language code is KR..
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition - Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian in 1997. An English edition, translated by Alastair McEwen, appeared in 1999. The book develops some aspects of Eco's A Theory of Semiotics which came out in 1976. In the first chapter Eco develops Nietzsche's argument that the truth is a poetically elaborated "mobile army of metaphors, metonymies and anthropomorphisms" that subsequently gel into knowledge, "illusions whose illusory nature has been forgotten", as the metaphors are reduced to schemata and concepts. In chapter two, working with ideas derived from Charles Peirce and Immanuel Kant, Eco compares linguistic and perceptual meaning when confronted with the unencountered. Chapter three explores the.
