Northern Karelian dialect

Northern Karelian (also called: White Sea Karelian, Viena Karelian and North Karelian) (Vienankarjala) is a dialect of Karelian Proper, which is itself a supradialect of the Karelian language. Northern Karelian is mostly spoken in White Karelia in Russia, and is spoken in Hietajärvi, Kuivajärvi and Kuhmo in Finland. Northern Karelian is the most mutually intelligible dialect to Finnish Language speakers.

Location
Northern Karelian is spoken in the northernmost parts of the Republic of Karelia, which is called White Karelia and in Hietajärvi, Kuivajärvi and Kuhmo, Finland. Specifically it is spoken in the parishes of Yushkozero, Keret (village), Kiestinki, Kontokki, Olanga, Paanajärvi, Tikhtozero, Suomussalmi, Uhtua, Poduzhemye (village), Vychetaibola and Vuokkiniemi.

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Dialectal features
In Northern Karelian, the š [sh/see] letter is used more than in other Karelian dialects.

Alphabet
Northern Karelian uses the unified Karelian alphabet which was adopted in 2007 to replace the separate two alphabets of the Livvi-Karelian and Karelian Proper dialects.