Karelian Cyrillic alphabet

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The Karelian Cyrillic alphabet is a writing system based on the Cyrillic script that has been used to represent the Karelian language, particularly in regions of Russia where Karelian is spoken.

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Label Occurrences
Karelian Cyrillic alphabet canonical 1

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Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
associatedWith Soviet Latinization campaign
surface form: Soviet language policy

language planning in Karelia
basedOn Cyrillic script
coexistsWith Karelian Latin alphabet
hasDistinctLettersFor Karelian-specific phonemes
historicallyUsedFor Karelian literature
administrative documents in Karelian
education in Karelian
ISO15924Code Cyrl
languageFamilyContext Finnic languages
primaryUsageRegion Northwest Russia
relatedTo Finnish alphabet
Russian alphabet
representsPhonologyOf Karelian language
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptFamily Cyrillic
scriptType alphabetic
usedBy Karelians
usedForMinorityLanguage true
usedIn Russian Republic of Karelia
surface form: Republic of Karelia

Russia
usedInDomains education
local administration
media
usedInTimePeriod 20th century
21st century
usesDiacritics yes
writingSystemFor Karelian language
writingSystemStatus minority language script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Karelian language hasAlphabetStandard Karelian Cyrillic alphabet