South Estonian language

E75030

Finnic language Uralic language language

South Estonian is a Finnic language spoken primarily in southeastern Estonia, distinguished by its own dialects (such as Võro and Seto) and notable phonological and grammatical differences from Standard Estonian.

Aliases (4)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Finnic language → Uralic language → language →
closelyRelatedTo	Estonian language → Finnish language → Livonian language → Votic language →
country	Estonia →
distinctFrom	Standard Estonian language →
family	Uralic →
hasDialect	Leivu dialect → Lutsi dialect → Mulgi dialect → Seto language → Tartu dialect → Võro language →
hasGrammaticalFeature	ablative case → adessive case → allative case → consonant gradation → elative case → illative case → inessive case → negative auxiliary verb distinct from main verb → partitive case → personal endings on verbs → rich case system → rich system of infinitive and participle forms → terminative case in some dialects → translative case →
hasLiteraryTraditionSince	17th century →
hasOrganization	Võro Institute →
hasPhonologicalFeature	three-way quantity distinction in consonants and vowels in some dialects → vowel harmony remnants in some dialects →
hasStatus	minority language in Estonia →
languageCodeISO639-3	vro →
primaryRegion	Põlva County → Setomaa region → Valga County → Võru County → southeastern Estonia →
recognizedAs	regional language in Estonia in some contexts →
subclassOf	Balto-Finnic language → Estonian language group →
subfamily	Finnic →
usedBy	Seto people → Võro people →
usedIn	folklore of southeastern Estonia →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
South Estonian language ("Võro language") → South Estonian language ("Tartu dialect") →	hasDialect
Finnic languages → Finno-Ugric languages →	hasMember
Seto ("Võro") →	closelyRelatedTo
Estonian language ("Võro") →	regionalVariety
Seto ("South Estonian") →	subdivisionOf