Karelian poem singing brothers Poavila and Triihvo Jamanen reciting traditional Finnish folk poetry, Russia, 1894.
#folkore #poetry #Karelian #Finnish

Today is the day of the #endangered #Karelian #language. More information and links at https://blogs.uef.fi/karjalanelvytys/ and https://www.karjalansivistysseura.fi/ .
It's mostly in Finnish, but for a nice English-language introduction, see https://www.uef.fi/en/article/revival-of-the-multivocal-karelian-language-begins-at-uef .
For hard-core fans: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:471733 (Karelian in Finland) and https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:314612 (Karelian in Russia).

2. Only #Tat is called #CrimeanTatar, while #Nogai and #Urum is shown as separate languages, and #Yalıboylu is called "Crimean Turkish". This is a bold move that I kinda like (usually they are gathered under an umbrella term of Crimean #Tatar identity), and it's unusual.
3. Similarly nicely, central #Karelian in relation to #Livvik and #Lude (although #Tver #Karela are marked as simple Karelian)
4. #Polesian is shown as a separate #language, which is cool! (It's a transitional BY-UA #dialect)