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Finnic Studies in Karelia

Summary/Abstract: Karelian dialect studies were first introduced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s at the Institute of Language, Literature and History (Petroskoi) on the initiative of Dmitri Bubrich. The institute was founded in 1930. Dialect material was collected and the results were represented on dialect maps. After WW II many Karelians have been able to study their own native dialect at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre at the Academy of Sciences of Russia, as well as in two local universities - Petroskoi State University (founded in 1940) and Karelian Pedagogical University (founded in 1931). Most of Karelian specialists owe their professional education to Petroskoi State University. In September 1990 a Chair of the Karelian and Vepsian language was founded there, while since 1992 an analogous chair also functions at the Pedagogical University. The object of the Finnic studies in Karelia are Karelian dialects and the revitalisation of Karelian and Vepsian standard languages, as well as Vepsian and Ingrian dialects. In 1990s a number of monographs and grammars concerning Karelian and Vepsian have been published.

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