Proto-Karelian[1][2][3], also known as the Old Karelian[4][5] was a language once spoken on the western shore of Lake Ladoga in Karelia, from which the dialects of the Karelian language (White, Southern and Livvi), Ludic, the Ingrian language[6], as well as the South Karelian and Savonian dialects of the Finnish language have developed.[7] It was spoken around the 12th and 13th centuries, and the language was likely quite uniform with little regional variance.[8] Old-Savonian developed from Proto-Karelian when the language of the inhabitants who had moved to the area around present-day Mikkeli mixed with western, likely Tavastian, speakers of Finnish. The Livvi-Karelian dialect and Ludic developed from the mixture of the old Vepsian language spoken by the Vepsians of the Olonets Isthmus and Proto-Karelian.[9][10][11][12]
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Innovations in Proto-Karelian include: the disappearance of *d and *g between vowels, the plural stem *-lOi-, the labialization of *e in post-syllables before labial consonants and the use of "männä" (with ä instead of e) for the word "mennä" (to go).[13][14] The Old-Karelian language had already been in contact with Old Russian speakers within its early stages.[15]
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Proto-Karelian had only a single sibilant *s.
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Karelian language, the eastern dialects of Finnish, the Ludic language spoken on the western shore of Lake Onega, and the Ingrian language spoken in Ingermanland, presumably all derive from a language called proto-Karelian, which may
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Proto-Karelian (the protolanguage of Karelian, Ingrian and Eastern Finnish dialects)
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Proto-Karelian made up the basis for Ingrian, but Karelian itself has developed in close contact with Veps.
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