Work on the Unified Karelian Alphabet was undertaken by the Terminology and Spelling Commission, established in 1999, reconciling the 1989 orthographies of Markianova and Zaikov.Boiko, 2019. It was officially approved in 2007.Republic of Karelia, 2007.
A Finnish-Karelian Dictionary, Sanakirja suomi-karjala, was published in 2008,Markianova & Pyöli, 2008. and the Russian-Karelian General Dictionary followed in 2011.Markianova & Pyöli, 2011.
Boiko, T.P. (2019). Ревитализация карельской письменности [Revitalization of the Karelian literary language]. In Ученые записки Петрозаводского государственного университета, 1(178). Petrozavodsk State University.
Markianova, L.F., Pyöli, R. (2008). Sanakirja suomi-karjala [Finnish-Karelian Dictionary]. Salmi-säätiö.
Markianova, L.F., Boiko, T.P. (2011). Bol'šoĭ russko-karel'skiĭ slovar' [Russian-Karelian General Dictionary]. Verso.
Republic of Karelia. (16 March 2007). Об утверждении алфавитов карельского и вепсского языков [About the establishment of the Karelian and Veps yazykovs] [Press release]. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from web.archive.org