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Preferred term

votVotic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Votic or Votian (vađđa ceeli or maa ceeli – also written vaďďa tšeeli, maatšeeli ) is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. It is closely related to Estonian and belongs to the Finnic subgroup of Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two villages in the Kingisepp district, and is close to extinction. In 1989 there were 62 speakers left, the youngest born in 1938. In its 24 December 2005 issue, The Economist wrote that there are only approximately 20 speakers left. Some linguists have claimed that Votic is actually a dialect of Estonian.

Entry terms

  • Votic language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • vot

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • vot

ISO 639-3 code

  • vot

Notation

  • vot

In other languages

  • vote

    French

  • Vote
  • Wotisch

    German

  • Wotische Sprache
  • voto

    Italian

  • Lingua votica
  • Portuguese

  • Língua vótica
  • vótico

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vot

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