Karelian is different enough from standard Finnish to have its own orthography.
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Karelian children would not go to foreign language group, though.
From the guardian.co.uk
Karelian children also have considerably more often antibodies against the Coxsackie B4 virus, belonging to the enterovirus group, than Finnish children have.
From the sciencedaily.com
Karelian heritage has traditionally been perceived as the purest expression of Finnic myths and beliefs, thought to be spared from Germanic and Slavic influences.
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A member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia
A Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia
(karelia) a region in Finland and Russia between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea
Karelianism was a late 19th century cultural phenomenon in the Grand Duchy of Finland and involved writers, painters, poets and sculptors. ...
The Karelians (also Karels, Russian Karelians and East Karelians) are a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group living mostly in the Republic of Karelia and in other north-western parts of the Russian Federation. ...
(Karelia (heavy metal band)) Karelia is a French heavy metal band created in 2000 by Lionel Vest and Matthieu Kleiber.
(Karelia (historical province)) Karelia (historically also Swedish Karelia) is a historical province of Finland. It refers to the Western Karelia that during the second millennium has been under western dominance, religiously and politically. Western, i.e. ...
The Republic of Karelia (Russian: u0420u0435u0441u043Fu0443u0301u0431u043Bu0438u043Au0430 u041Au0430u0440u0435u0301u043Bu0438u044F, tr. Respublika Kareliya; IPA:u00A0; Karelian: Karjalan tazavalda; Finnish: Karjalan tasavalta; Veps: Karjalan Tazovaldkund) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic), located in the northwest of Russia. Its capital is the city of Petrozavodsk. Its population in 2010 was 643,548.
(Karelia (Sibelius)) The Karelia Suite, Op. 11, is a collection of orchestral pieces composed by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.