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Language Information By Source

Europe and North Asia
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

63,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Northern And Eastern Europe

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems

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More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Russian, Finnish

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

31,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

58.0284,33.3215

Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

35,600

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Ethnic Population

60,800

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"25,600 in Russian Federation (2010 census). Census includes Livvi-Karelian [olo] and Ludian [lud]. Population total all countries: 35,600."

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

"Kareliya Republic, Murmanskaya Oblast’, and Leningradskaya Oblast’; some in Tverskaya Oblast’, mainly Tolmachi area, Maksatikha and Ves’yegonsk."

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

"Kareliya Republic, Murmanskaya Oblast’, and Leningradskaya Oblast’; some in Tverskaya Oblast’, mainly Tolmachi area, Maksatikha and Ves’yegonsk."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Russian [rus], Finnish [fin]

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

76,950

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

138,400

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

Countries

Karelian ASSR, St.Petersburg, Novgorod, Finland

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

cyrillic script

Other writing systems

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More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Russian; Finnish

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

64.0,32.0

Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

128,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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