Linguistic analysis of Karelian language material in P. S. Pallas’s dictionary

Introduction. Old written monuments are the most important source for studying the history of the development of written language, especially in the case of Karelian. This article provides a linguistic analysis of Karelian materials presented in the thesaurus-type dictionary “Comparative Dictionaries of All Languages and Peoples”, published on behalf of Catherine II from 1787 to 1789, under the editorship of P. S. Pallas.