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Total population | |
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2,764 (2020)[1] | |
Languages | |
Karelian language | |
Religion | |
Eastern Christianity |
Tver Karelians are a people who inhabit regions of Tver, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow. Their dialect is remarkable in that it does not borrow from other Balto-Finnic languages due to centuries of geographical isolation. Although the number of Tver Karelian people was about 14,633 in 2002, very few (about 25 in one census) named the dialect as their primary language. The number of Tver Karelians was 7,394 in 2010[2] and 2,764 in 2020.[1]