karelian in English

noun

Uralic language language spoken by the Karelians (spoken in Finland and Russia)

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1. The maps describe the structure of Karelian settlement.

2. Karelian Bear Dogs are naturally aggressive towards other animals.

3. "A Nation in Transition: The Resettlement of the Karelian Evacuees".

4. The Karelian Bear Dog was used mainly for hunting small fur-bearing animals, such as squirrels and marten.

5. The demands were that Finland cede the Karelian Isthmus, including the city of Viipuri, and Finland's shore of Lake Ladoga.

6. Separated from the Baltic Sea by the Karelian Isthmus, it drains into the Gulf of Finland via the Neva River.

7. Pandzhikidze reported the sighting on 2 October to the director of Karelian Hydrometeorological Observatory Yuri Gromov, who verified the report's copy.

8. But in the spring of 1940, the snows melted, and a renewed Soviet offensive compelled them to surrender and relinquish the Karelian Isthmus and some smaller territories.

9. During the Russian Civil War a British officer Col. P.J. Woods, of Belfast, established a Karelian Regiment which had a shamrock on an orange field as its regimental badge.

10. The war took a heavy death toll on the Red Army but forced Finland to sign a Moscow Peace Treaty and cede the Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia.

11. The alphabet consisted of twenty-nine characters, and it was very similar to the modern alphabet: A B Č D Ǯ E F G H I J K L M N O P R S Š Z Ž T U V Ü Ä Ö ' In the Olonets Karelian alphabet, the letter Ǯ was used instead of the digraph Dž to mark the voiced affricate.