They are heavily influenced by the Old Novgorod dialect and contain a substantial number of both archaisms and borrowings from Uralic and Scandinavian languages.

The Pomor people were involved in trade with Norway, so they borrowed some vocabulary from the North Germanic languages too.

Pomor is almost extinct in Karelia and the Kola Peninsula, with the remaining speakers living the Arkhangelsk Region.

The Pomor dialects are widely used in literary works by Boris Shergin and Stepan Pisakhov.

Pomor dialects are spoken in the animated films of Leonid Nosyrev, many of which are adaptations of stories by Shergin and Pisakhov.