Votes
 Votic Coat o Airms, designed bi Alexander Gurinov | |
| Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
|---|---|
 Roushie | 73 (2002)[1] |
 Estonie | 9 (2000)[2] |
| Leids | |
| Votic, Roushie, Ingrie | |
| Releegion | |
| Orthodox | |
| Relatit ethnic groups | |
| other Finnic fowks | |
Votes (cried Vod an aw) are a fowk o Votie in Ingrie, the pairt o modren day northwastren Roushie that is roughly soothwast o Saunt Petersburg an east o the Estonie border-toun o Narva. Their awn ethnic name is vadjalain (plural: vadjalaizõt). The Finnic Votic leid spoken bi Votes is close tae extinction. Votians wur ane o the foondin fowk o Veliky Novgorod. The Votic leid is still spoken in three veelages o historical Votia an bi an unkent nummer o fluent Votic speakers in the kintraside. The veelages are Jõgõperä (Krakolje), Liivtšülä (Peski), an Luuditsa (Lužitsõ).[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Russian Census of 2002
- ↑ Population of Estonia by ethnic nationality, mother tongue and citizenship
- ↑ Eesti Rahva Muuseum: Vadjalased (in Estonie)
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire - The Votes
- VAĐĐA TODAY, is an open project run as a NGO aimed to popularize Votes' culture among the Internet community.