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North Karelians
Karelians from northern and central Karelia have referred to themselves as ‘karjalaine’ or ‘karjalaže’. In the 19th and 20th centuries this ethnonym also began to …
Livvis
Livvi Karelians or Olonets Karelians inhabit the territory around the Olonka river. Livvi language has for a long time remained uninfluenced by the Russian language, …
Ludians
The Ludian language is a Baltic-Finnic language or dialect that belongs to Finno-Ugric languages. The word “Ludian” is derived from the Russian word ‘lyudi‘ (people). …
Karelians
Territory Ancestors of the Karelians lived to the southwest of today’s Republic of Karelia, in the Karelian Isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake …
Finno-Ugric Media
On this page we have collected media channels and publications that write about life in the Finno-Ugric areas. The links open in a separate window.
Finno-Ugric Peoples
According to recent studies, the peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages have inhabited Europe for about ten millennia. It seems that before the “Great Migration”, mainly Finno-Ugric …