Votic

Facts

  • Language: Votic
  • Alternate names: Vod, Vot, водский язык, vaďďaa tšeeli, maa tšeeli, vađđa, vadjdjaa, maaceeli, Wotisch, vad'd'alaizet, vod', čudy, Vodian, Votish, Votisch, vodskij jazyk, vadjan keel, vatjan kieli, Vote, Votian,
  • Language code: vot
  • Language family: Uralic, Finnic, Coastal Finnic, Neva, Central Finnic
  • Number of speakers: <10
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Unwritten.

More information:

    Last speakers of East Vod dialect died in the 1960s.

    The Votic language belongs to the southern group of the Baltic-Finnic languages and is the closest relative of the Estonian language. Western, eastern (main dialects), Kukkusi and Kreevin dialects can be distinguished. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire)