South Karelian dialects, Karelian dialects or Southeast Finnish dialects () are Eastern Finnish dialects spoken in South Karelia, along with eastern parts of Kymenlaakso (Virolahti and Miehikkälä). Prior to the Winter War, the dialects were spoken along the Karelian Isthmus and Ingria. However, the South Karelian dialect speakers from the parts of Karelia taken by the Soviet Union were evacuated into the rest of Finland where their speech was assimilated into the new environment. Use of the Ingrian dialects is declining.
South Karelian dialects have been influenced by Russian.
Features Standard Finnish : → -
lehen Standard Finnish: lehden 'leave's' (genitive singular of lehti)
Standard Finnish : → , or
mehtä, messä, metsä Standard Finnish: metsä 'forest'
Inessive ending: -ssA → -s
maas Standard Finnish: maassa 'on the ground; in a/the country'
Vowels -eä and -ea
korkia Standard Finnish: korkea 'high, tall'
Palatalization
ves Standard Finnish: vesi 'water'Third-person plural imperfect ending tulliit Standard Finnish: tulivat 'they came'Lack of syntactic gemination and glottal stop'''
syntactic gemination tule tänne Standard Finnish: tule tänne 'come here' (2nd-person singular imperative of tulla 'come')
glottal stop sadealue Standard Finnish: sadealue'' 'area of precipitation' (term used in weather forecasts)
Vocabulary
a = well vot = good, well kehtoittaa = to be tired or bored sankia = thick tällviisii = in this manner lusti = joy potuska = pillow most = maybe
See also Ingrian dialects Savonian dialects Tavastian dialects
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