Votic language

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The Votic language is a nearly extinct Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Votes in Ingria, near the Gulf of Finland in northwestern Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnic language
Uralic language
endangered language
minority language
classification South Finnic language
closelyRelatedTo Estonian language
Finnish language
Ingrian language
country Russian Federation
endangermentCause assimilation policies
language shift to Russian
family Uralic language family
hasCase ablative
adessive
allative
elative
essive
genitive
illative
inessive
nominative
partitive
translative
hasDialect Jõgõperä dialect
Krakolye dialect
Kukkusi dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant gradation
vowel harmony
hasWordOrder SVO
flexible word order
influencedBy Russian language
languageCodeISO639_3 vot
region northwestern Russia
revitalizationEffort documentation by linguists
local community courses
spokenIn Ingria
Russia
spokenNear Gulf of Finland
status nearly extinct
severely endangered
subfamily Finnic branch
traditionalSpeakers Votes
traditionalVillageArea Jõgõperä
Krakolye
Luzhitsy
usedBy very small number of elderly speakers
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script

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