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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:
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> Could you please enlighten me as to what language is this language
called Vepsian or Veps? Where is it spoken?
www.geocities.com/valentyn_ua/FinU-a-j.xls
The Fennic or Baltic Finnish languages are
Finnish (5.000.000)
Karelian (62.500)
Veps (6.000)
Ingrian (300)
Votic (25)
Estonian (1.000.000)
Livonian (15)
Tiit-Rein Viitso: Fennic, in
Abondolo: The Uralic Languages
"
Veps is the easternmost Fennic language. It is spoken in two different
areas: (1) on the southwestern coast of Lake Onega in Karelia and (2)
in the northeast of the St Petersburg region and the northwest of the
Vologda region of Russia. Since 1989 efforts have been made by
Vepsians to have the two Veps territories united under their own
administration; these efforts have met with resistance on the part of
the administration of the St Petersburg region.
Veps has been classified into North, Central, and South Veps. North
Veps (lJüdJikelJ) is the closest to Lude and may have been influenced
by its former, now Russianized, Lude neighbours. South Veps and
Central Veps (bepsan kelJ) make up a dialect continuum in which South
Veps is the most innovative dialect and the northern dialects of
Central Veps share some features with North Veps and with Lude
Karelian. For Central and South Veps, scriptures based on Central Veps
existed in 1931-7. In 1991 three books for Veps children, including a
primer, were published.
"
The author counts Lude as a Karelian dialect.
Torsten