Dialectal specification of Karelian material of P. S. Pallas’s dictionary

Introduction. A unique source for the study of the historical dialectology of the Karelian language from the moment of the formation of its main dialect areas until the beginning of their research in the middle of the XIX century is old-written monuments such as dictionary entries and translations of texts of spiritual content. This article is the first attempt to analyze and identify the dialectal features of the Karelian language material presented in two parts of the Comparative Dictionary of All Languages and Dialects by P. S. Pallas, to determine the possible geographical localization of its sources.