Encyclopedia > Veps

  Article Content

Veps language

Redirected from Veps

Veps belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages.

According to Soviet statistics 8,000 people were self-designated Veps at the end of the 1970s. The statistics is however considered extremely unreliable by most non-Soviet linguists, not changing the situation that the language must be understood as in stern threat of extinction.

According to the location of the people, the language is divided into three main dialects: Northern Veps (at Lake Onega[?] to the south of Petrozavodsk[?], to the north of river Syväri[?]), Central Veps (in the Petersburg region), and Southern Veps (in the Vologda province). The Northern dialect is somewhat more distinct than the others, but it is nevertheless possible for the members of the different dialect groups to understand each other. The speakers of the Northern dialect call themselves Ludic or Ludilainen. Their speech is sometimes classified as a dialect of Karelian.

External links:



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
East Marion, New York

... 2.30 and the average family size is 2.79. In the town the population is spread out with 18.5% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 20.6% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 31.8 ms