sentence: Some people fear Karelian culture and language die out.
sentences_before: Original people of Karelia are Karelians. Karelian people speaks Karelian, that is a Finnic language very close to Finnish. Karelians knew many old poems. Many poems of Finnish book Kalevala are from Karelians. Today in republic of Karelia Karelians are minority and Russians are majority.
concept_name: people
headings: Karelia
categories: Russia Finland