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Veps
vepsän kelʹ
Native to
Russia
Region
Karelia (Veps National Volost) Leningrad Oblast Vologda Oblast
Ethnicity
5,900 Veps (2010 census)
Native speakers
1,300 (2020 census [1])[2]
Language family
Uralic
Finnic
Northern Finnic
Veps
Writing system
Latin (Vepsian alphabet)
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Russia
Karelia[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
vep
Glottolog
veps1250
ELP
Veps
Distribution of Veps at the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries[4][5]
Veps is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010).[6]
Veps, also known as Vepsian (Veps: vepsän kelʹ, vepsän keli, or vepsä), is a Finnic language from the Uralic language family, that is spoken by Vepsians. The language is written in the Latin script, and is closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
According to Soviet statistics, 12,500 people were self-designated ethnic Veps at the end of 1989. There were 5,900 self-designated ethnic Veps in 2010,[2] and around 3,600 native speakers.
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 the river Svir, including the former Veps National Volost), Central Veps (in the east of the Leningrad Oblast and northwest of the Vologda Oblast), and Southern Veps (in the Leningrad Oblast). The Northern dialect seems the most distinct of the three; however, it is still mutually intelligible for speakers of the other two dialects. Speakers of the Northern dialect call themselves "Ludi" (lüdikad), or lüdilaižed.
In Russia, more than 350 children learn the Veps language in a total of five national schools.[7]
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^Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
^"UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger" (PDF). UNESCO. 2010. p. 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
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