Votic
Sign in to savelanguage spoken by the Votes of Ingria
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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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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.
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