Eastern Finnish dialects are chiefly vested in the Savonians (the Savonian dialects) and the Karelians (the southeast Finnish dialects).
One of the Finnish language spoken group, the North Karelian, represents the East Finnish dialects, however this distinction is not established in any case.
[1] There is less influence from Scandinavian and Finland-Swedish culture and language.
The language is distinguished by vowel-diphthong shifts with respect to the standard language, and the use of palatalization.
Epenthetic vowels are added after /l/, /h/ and sometimes /n/ in stressed syllable coda preceding a consonant (e.g. kylmä – kylymä), but this feature is not distinguishing, being also found commonly in most Western Finnish dialects.