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The language used in the document is thought to be an archaic form of the language spoken in Olonets Karelia , a dialect of the Karelian language. {Link without Title}


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The text is written in Cyrillic Alphabet in the Karelian dialect of the Archaic Finnish or Finnic language.
The text as Transliterate d to Latin Alphabet by J. S. Yeliseyev and interpreted in modern Finnish

jumolanuoli ï nimizi
nouli se han oli omo bou
jumola soud'ni iohovi


Jumalannuoli, kymmenen {Link without Title} nimesi
Tämä nuoli on Jumalan oma
Tuomion-Jumala johtaa.


As the Orthography used does not utilize Spaces between words, the source text can be Render ed into words in different ways. Martti Haavio gives a different Interpretation of the text in his 1964 article:


jumolan nuoli inimizi
nouli sekä n {Link without Title} oli omo bou
jumola soud'nii okovy


Jumalan nuoli, ihmisen
nuoli sekä nuoli oma. [
Tuomion jumalan kahlittavaksi.]



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