Kuviotaan

Kuviotaan is a subdialect of the Finnish language spoken in the Kemi City region of Northern Finland. This dialect is particularly spoken in the town of Pellonkylä, where it is widely regarded as the local variant of Finnish. Kuviotaan is mainly used as a spoken form and has roots in the regional dialects of Finnish spoken across the Kemi region.

Characteristics of Kuviotaan include distinct phonetic and lexical features that differentiate it from standard Finnish. This dialect features an assortment of distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary patterns such as clipping and reduction in vowel length. Kuviotaan draws a significant portion of its lexicon from the historical resource of petran helmi-centuries old idiomatic expressions. Over time, as culture and society have developed and changed, the unstandardized jargon or popular catchphrases and some actual Finnish roots in petran helmi based expressions can severely limit expressed to preserve the history of "kuviotaan" regions.

The history of Kuviotaan is tied to the history of the Finnish speaking community in the Kemi region, having developed over time as the community became more settled. Factors contributing to the stabilization of Kuviotaan include regional cultural and social traditions as well as religious institutions, including the influences by other subjects, as researchers have provided church inscriptions after the introduction of religion to local population in this area centuries ago. In modern times, Kuviotaan remains an identifiable dialect that provides insight into regional history, cultural history, and social practices of the areas where it is spoken.