The main purpose of the analyses is to explore the present state of OlonetsKarelian and the degree of its russification.
Young Karelian parents have little motivation to pass the minority language on to their children, mainly because of the high prestige of Russian as the language of education and social mobility.
OlonetsKarelian, despite the strong Russian influence, has preserved its basic structure, and the speakers are able to use it without fear of being categorized as 'semispeakers'.
Karelian is a dialect of, or a language closely related to, Finnish.
It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is chiefly distinguished from standard Finnish by the lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century Finnish.
Attempts to standardize Karelian with a Cyrillic alphabet were unsuccessful, and today the Karelian republic (of the Russian federation) consider Karelian a dialect of Finnish, why Finnish is one of its official languages.
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