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Votic

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Also known as Votian language, Votian, vot, Votic language, Vod, Vod language, Vodian, Vodian language

language spoken by the Votes of Ingria

AI overview

Votic is a language that was spoken by the Votes, a people who lived in a region called Ingria. The language is historically significant as part of the linguistic heritage of the Baltic region, though it is now extinct or nearly extinct.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Country
Estonia
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topic's main category
Category:Votic language
Commons category
Votic language
writing system
Latin script
number of speakers, writers, or signers
29
native label
vad̕d̕a tšeeli
Wikimedia language code
vot
linguistic typology
agglutinative language
indigenous to
Votes
P10369
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Encyclopedic overview

Ingrian and Votic villages at the beginning of the 21st century Votic or Votian (vaďďa tšeeli, maatšeeli) [ˈvɑdʲːɑ ˈt͡ɕeːlʲi, ˈmɑːˌt͡ɕeːlʲi], is a Finnic language spoken by the Vots of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye (now part of Ust-Luga) and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. In the 2020–2021 Russian census, 21 people claimed to speak Votic natively, which is an increase from 4 in 2010. Arvo Survo also estimated that around 100 people have knowledge of the language to some degree.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Votic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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