Lexical Interference of Russian and Karelian in the Diachronic Aspect of Language Policy

Introduction . At the moment territory of Russian Federation comprises 138 endangered languages, which determines relevance studying influence state’s language policy on development Karelian language. The purpose study is to analyze way contacts influenced Karelian. novelty lies in consideration linguistic interference historical context. Methodology and sources conducted using publications pre-Soviet Soviet periods, as well articles from modern electronic periodicals. research material was broadened by interviewing several informants. data collected analyzed method continuous sampling, questioning, participant observation, comparative analysis. theoretical basis social typology languages situations. Results discussion Different periods ended changing different ways making it adopt some features Finnish, Vepsian Russian. texts period show that lexical units origin denote everyday realities or religious concepts. demonstrate maximum number Russianbased units, are related life ideology realities. In period, there least words origin, mostly borrowings have long been a part norm Conclusion With distinctive relevant situations taken into account, present situation Republic Karelia can be defined multicomponent multilingual, being demographically out equilibrium communicatively unbalanced. influenced, varying degrees, Russian; this clearly reflected vocabulary. Nowadays professional amateur activists striving revitalize oriented mainly towards its Baltic-Finnish basis.