East Finnish culture

Culture

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 and dialect

Dialect

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 are chiefly vested in the Savonians and the Karelians

Karelians

The Karelians are a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group living mostly in the Republic of Karelia and in other north-western parts of the Russian Federation. The historic homeland of Karelians includes also parts of present-day Eastern Finland and the formerly Finnish territory of Ladoga Karelia...

. It is distinguished by considerably less of influence from Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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n and Finland-Swedish

Finland-Swedish

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 culture and language.

Migrants of the last half millennium to central and northern Scandinavia and to Ingria

Ingria

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 were mainly of East Finnish origin, which is why dialects and languages such as Meänkieli

Meänkieli

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 and Ingrian

Ingrian language

The Ingrian language is a Finnic language spoken by the Izhorians of Ingria. It has approximately 500 speakers left, most of whom are aging...

 are closer to the East Finnish dialects.

Subdivisions

• Savo Finnish
  Savo Finnish
  The Savonian dialects are forms of Finnish language spoken in Savonia and other parts of Eastern Finland. It belongs to the eastern Finnish dialects and it is divided to more specific dialect groups....
  
  . There are major differences between different Savo dialects. For example, North Savo has different personal pronouns from South Savo.
• Karelian Finnish
• Some dialects of the Karelian language
  Karelian language
  Karelian language is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Linguistically Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland and some Finnish linguists even classified Karelian as a dialect of Finnish...
  
   spoken within the former borders (1920 peace
  Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish)
  The Treaty of Tartu between Finland and Soviet Russia was signed on 14 October 1920 after negotiations that lasted for four months. The treaty confirmed the border between Finland and Soviet Russia after the Finnish civil war and Finnish volunteer expeditions in Russian East Karelia. Ratifications...
  
  ) are sometimes classified as "border Karelian dialects" (Raja-Karjalan murteet).