Veps language

E150709
Finnic language Uralic language minority language

Veps language is a Finnic Uralic language spoken by the Veps people in northwestern Russia, closely related to Finnish and Karelian.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Veps language canonical 14
Veps 2
Central Veps dialect 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ
minority language ⓘ
basicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Finnish language ⓘ
Karelian language ⓘ
endangeredStatus severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Livonian people ⓘ
surface form: Veps people
family Uralic languages ⓘ
surface form: Uralic language family
hasAncestor Proto-Finnic language ⓘ
surface form: Proto-Finnic

Proto-Uralic language ⓘ
surface form: Proto-Uralic
hasCase elative case ⓘ
genitive case ⓘ
illative case ⓘ
inessive case ⓘ
nominative case ⓘ
partitive case ⓘ
hasCaseSystem rich case system ⓘ
hasDialect Veps language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Central Veps dialect

Veps language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Northern Veps dialect

Southern Veps dialect ⓘ
hasGrammaticalGender no grammatical gender ⓘ
hasLiteraryStandard yes ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Finnish language ⓘ
Karelian language ⓘ
Russian language ⓘ
hasNumberCategory plural ⓘ
singular ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature long and short vowels ⓘ
palatalized consonants ⓘ
hasVowelHarmony no productive vowel harmony ⓘ
ISO639-2 vep ⓘ
ISO639-3 vep ⓘ
languageCode vep ⓘ
languageFamilyBranch Finnic languages ⓘ
surface form: Northern Finnic
morphologicalType agglutinative language ⓘ
nativeName vepsän kel’ ⓘ
recognizedAs minority language in Karelia ⓘ
spokenIn Leningrad Oblast ⓘ
Russian Republic of Karelia ⓘ
surface form: Republic of Karelia

Russia ⓘ
surface form: Russian Federation

Vologda Oblast ⓘ
northwestern Russia ⓘ
standardizationPeriod late 20th century ⓘ
subfamily Baltic-Finnic subgroup ⓘ
Finnic branch ⓘ
usedFor education in some schools ⓘ
folklore and traditional songs ⓘ
local media ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uralic languages → hasMember → Veps language ⓘ
Leningrad Oblast → hasMinorityLanguage → Veps language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Veps
Ludian language → geneticRelation → Veps language ⓘ
Ludian language → isTransitionalBetween → Veps language ⓘ
Ludian language → lexicalInfluenceFrom → Veps language ⓘ
Karelian language → closelyRelatedTo → Veps language ⓘ
Proto-Finnic language → reconstructedFrom → Veps language ⓘ
Finno-Ugric languages → hasMember → Veps language ⓘ
Veps language → hasDialect → Veps language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Veps dialect
Veps language → hasDialect → Veps language self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central Veps dialect
Finno-Ugric peoples → includesLanguage → Veps language ⓘ
Ludic people → languageCloseTo → Veps language ⓘ
Ludian → closelyRelatedTo → Veps language ⓘ
Central Ludian → closelyRelatedTo → Veps language ⓘ
Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre RAS → focusesOn → Veps language ⓘ
Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre RAS → languageOfWork → Veps language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Veps
Southern Ludian → sharesFeaturesWith → Veps language ⓘ
Ingrian language → closelyRelatedTo → Veps language ⓘ