In this article we apply a folk linguistic listening task to examine how the Tver’ Karelians in Russia recognise a sample of their own dialect and a sample of Border Karelian (spoken in Finland), both recorded about 60 years ago. Tver’ Karelian and Border Karelian have a shared origin in Proto-Karelian but have been diverging from each other since the seventeenth century; the former has had strong influence from Russian and the latter from Finnish. The study investigates the Tver’ Karelians’ awareness of and observations about the Karelian language and shows that they easily recognise their own dialect, whereas the Border Karelian sample is harder to recognise and describe. However, the respondents observed and described lexical and phonetic features of this sample, and two thirds of them located the sample in the republic of Karelia or in Finland, mostly based on the ‘accent’ of the speaker.

在本文中，我们应用民间语言听力任务来研究俄罗斯的特维尔卡累利阿人如何识别他们自己的方言样本和边境卡累利阿语（芬兰语）样本，这两种语言都录制于大约 60 年前。特维尔卡累利阿语和边境卡累利阿语在原始卡累利阿语中有着共同的起源，但自 17 世纪以来一直存在分歧。前者受到俄语的强烈影响，后者受到芬兰语的影响。该研究调查了特维尔卡累利阿人对卡累利阿语言的认知和观察，结果表明他们很容易识别自己的方言，而边境卡累利阿样本则更难识别和描述。然而，受访者观察并描述了该样本的词汇和语音特征，其中三分之二的人将样本定位在卡累利阿共和国或芬兰，