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Preferred term

vroVõro  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Võro language (, ) is a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Traditionally it has been considered a dialect of the South Estonian dialect group of the Estonian language, but nowadays it has its own literary language and is in search of official recognition as an autochthonous regional language of Estonia. Võro has about 70,000 speakers (Võros) mostly in south-eastern Estonia, in the eight parishes of historical Võru County: Karula, Harglõ, Urvastõ, Rõugõ, Kanepi, Põlva, Räpinä, and Vahtsõliina. These parishes are currently centered (due to redistricting) in Võru and Põlva counties with parts extending into Valga and Tartu counties. Speakers can also be found in the towns of Tallinn, Tartu and the rest of Estonia.

Entry terms

  • Võro language

ISO 639-3 code

  • vro

Notation

  • vro

In other languages

  • Võro

    French

  • Võro

    German

  • Lingua võro

    Italian

  • Língua võro

    Portuguese

  • Idioma võro

    Spanish

URI

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

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