FORMATION OF THE WORD STOCK OF MODERN KARELIAN IN THE CONTEXT OF KARELO-RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CONTACTS
Long-term co-existence of Karels and Russians resulted in numerous borrowings from Russian into Karelian. Modern Karelian lexis is represented in bilingual dictionaries, with borrowings from Russian constituting its greater part. Russian remains to be one of the languages from which words are being borrowed into Karelian. Russian also functions as mediator-language from which international words are also borrowed.