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Votes
Sign in to saveAlso known as vad’d’a, vad’d’alain, vad’d’jakko, vaj, maaväči
Votians, also referred to as Votes, Vots and Vods (; ; ; ) are a Finnic ethnic group native to historical Ingria, the part of modern-day northwestern Russia that is roughly southwest of Saint Petersburg and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva. The Finnic Votic language spoken by Votians is close to extinction. The language is still spoken in three villages of historical Votia and by an unknown number of speakers in the countryside. The villages are Jõgõperä (Krakolye), Liivcülä (Peski), and Luuditsa (Luzhitsy). In the Russian 2020 census, 99 people identified as Votian.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Votiansvađđalaizõd
- Ethnic group.flag
- Votic Flag.svg
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- Flag of Votians
- Ethnic group.population
- 109
- Ethnic group.languages
- Votic, Russian, Ingrian, Estonian
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 99 (2020)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 4 (2011) 10 (2021)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Eastern OrthodoxLutheranPoluverniki
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Baltic FinnsEspecially Estonians, Livonians, Setos, and Võros
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 64
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- Commons category
- Votians
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- History
- Votes in Latvia
- Votes in Estonia
- Culture
- Language and identity
- Genetics
- References
- External links
Votians, also referred to as Votes, Vots and Vods (; ; ; ) are a Finnic ethnic group native to historical Ingria, the part of modern-day northwestern Russia that is roughly southwest of Saint Petersburg and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva. The Finnic Votic language spoken by Votians is close to extinction. The language is still spoken in three villages of historical Votia and by an unknown number of speakers in the countryside. The villages are Jõgõperä (Krakolye), Liivcülä (Peski), and Luuditsa (Luzhitsy). In the Russian 2020 census, 99 people identified as Votian.
Votians were one of the founding people of Veliky Novgorod.