Mulgi dialect

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The Mulgi dialect is a traditional regional variety of South Estonian spoken historically in the Mulgimaa area of southern Estonia.

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Label Occurrences
Mulgi dialect canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf South Estonian dialect
dialect
associatedWith Mulgi culture
belongsTo Finnic languages
surface form: Balto-Finnic subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Seto dialect
South Estonian language
surface form: Võro dialect
country Estonia
distinctFrom North Estonian dialects
Estonian language
surface form: Standard Estonian
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Mulgi murre
surface form: Mulgi murrak

Mulgi murre
hasEthnicGroup Mulgi people NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature abessive case
ablative case
adessive case
allative case
comitative case
elative case
illative case
inessive case
partitive case
rich case system
terminative case
translative case
hasPhonologicalFeature three-way quantity distinction
vowel harmony remnants
hasSociolinguisticSituation shift towards Standard Estonian
hasStatus minority
regional
historicalRegion Pärnu County
Tartu County
Valga County
Viljandi County
ISO639-3 none (no separate code; usually grouped under South Estonian or Estonian)
languageBranch Finnic languages
languageFamily Uralic languages
partOf South Estonian language
surface form: South Estonian dialect continuum
region Mulgimaa
revitalizationEffort community language courses
local cultural initiatives
spokenIn Southern Estonia
surface form: southern Estonia
subdivisionOf South Estonian language
timePeriod historically spoken
usedBy older generations in Mulgimaa
usedIn folklore
local literature
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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South Estonian language hasDialect Mulgi dialect