Key facts
- Native to
- Russia ( Republic of Karelia )
- Region
- Near northwestern shore of Lake Onega
- Native speakers
- 300 (2017)
- Language family
- Uralic Finnic Northern Finnic Ludic
- Writing system
- Latin ( Karelian alphabet )
- Recognised minority language in
- Republic of Karelia
- Iso 639 3
- lud
- Glottolog
- ludi1246
- Elp
- Ludian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3000
- topic's main category
- Category:Ludic
- indigenous to
- Karelia
- Commons category
- Ludic
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Encyclopedic overview
Current distribution of Karelian and Ludic Ludic, Ludian, or Ludic Karelian (Luudi, Lyydi or lüüdi), is a Finnic language in the Uralic language family or a third supradialect of Karelian. It is transitional between the Olonets Karelian language and the Veps language. It is spoken by 300 Karelians in the Republic of Karelia in Russia, near the southwestern shore of Lake Onega, including a few children.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ludic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.