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Date of upload: Apr 3, 2018 ^^
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More accurately, this is Izhoran. Ingrian can be interpreted as either Izhorans or the Ingrian Finns (Inkeri) who are basically Karelian Finns who migrated into Ingermanland some centuries ago. I am a descendent of an Inkeri. They did have a different dialect from other Finns, but for the most part it was mutually intelligible. Also, despite growing up with English as my primary language, I recognize some words in here, maybe more than a native Finn would, perhaps because my parents' "Old Finnish" was closer to this.
My father had to escape Russia because of the NKVD and Stalin's policies toward Finns in general. Many of my relatives died, arrested on false charges then shot, or sent to gulags. The same fate befell Izhorans and any other Finns in the region, I'm sure and that is why so little remains of it today. It was a genocide, that extremely few know about today. Not even the ones who went through it wished to discuss it. I did my best to tell my father's family's story in the book Inger: Father & Son.
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My translation, in modern Finnish, ignoring some eastern Finnish dialect opportunities that would allow a more similar wording;
Maarojani, sisareni,
Oi-tai, Maarojani, Maarojani, sisarein
Kuin sanoin mä tän kesän jo,
Oi-tai, kuin sanoin minä, kuin sanoin minä tän kesän jo
Tästä minä vuoden vokottelin
Oi-tai minä vuoden vokottelin
Teemme pitäjän kivikolle
Oi-tai, teemme pitäjän kivikoll'
Kaarossan kylän lähelle
Oi-tai, Kaarossan vaan, Kaarossan kylän lähel'
Sinne ei tiedä kosijat tulla,
Piippumiehet pistäytyä
Sinä vain vastasit:
Minul' on kilpi kirstussani
Oi-tai minul on kilpi kirstussa
Ja on miekka kaapissani
Oi-tai minul on miekka kaapissa
Minä lyön kosijat kuolioiksi
Piippumiehet maahan pistän
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@beatricebeathyraneniute2298
5 years ago
I wish that Ingrian kids should keep their native language for the rest of their lives, so their culture and language could live on.
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