Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Ingrian language


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - INGRIA
Their literary language is the same as that of Suomi Finns, and is complemented with many local dialects.
Ingrian Finns are represented in UNPO by Inkeri Liitto.
The serious interest shown by outsiders in the Votic language and in the collection of materials about their language has raised the status of their native language in the eyes of the Votes and postponed their linguistic assimilation.
www.hunmagyar.org /turan/finnu/ingrian.html   (1814 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It describes the language, the lives and the fates of the Ingrian Finns in Estonia, near the city of Tartu.
The Votes and the Ingrians were converted to the Greek Orthodox religion, which enhanced the status of Russian, since it was the language of the religion.
The Ingrian Finnish villages of Kurkolanniemi have belonged to the Lutheran parish of Narvusi (Russ.
www.conflicts.rem33.com /images/Finland/INKERI.htm   (3886 words)

  
 Autochthons
Its closest kindred languages are Karelian and the eastern dialects of Finnish.
The Votic language belongs to the southern group of the Baltic-Finnish languages and is the closest relative of the Estonian language.
Inkerian and Karelian are the closest kindred languages to the Eastern Finnish dialects.
www.geocities.com /s_petropol/Autochthons.html   (7048 words)

  
 www.inkeri.com
A majority of the farmers were deported, the use of the Finnish language was prohibited and the Finnish speaking intelligentsia was annihilated.
Ingrians were shipped off to prison camps or deported to Siberia and to central Russia.
The Ingrians were promised by Soviet auhtorities that they could return to their own region, but instead were deported to different parts of the Soviet Union.
www.inkeri.com /english.html   (1831 words)

  
 mol.fi
The language competence requirement would apply to residence permit applications submitted on grounds of Ingrian identity that are not classified as "debt of honour" cases.
These language examinations are tests of functional language competence intended for adults, and are open to all participants regardless of the manner and place in which the language competence was acquired.
Language competence tests for Ingrians have been negotiated by the Ministry of Education with the National Board of Education and the University of Jyväskylä.
www.mol.fi /mol/en/01_ministry/08_publications/02_monitori/05_backissues/MONITORI2002_3/MON2002_3_5_EN.jsp   (990 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The language of the Ingrians is not a separate language but consists of eastern Finnish dialects (the vernaculars of the Savo and southeastern dialects of Ingermanland).
Izhorian and Karelian are the closest kindred languages to the Eastern Finnish dialects.
The oppression of the Russian language and milieu was neutralized by Lutheranism and the proximity of their mother country, Finland (as a grand duchy under the dominion of Russia from 1809--1917).
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/ingrians.shtml   (1813 words)

  
 FAST-FIN-1 Finnish Institutions Papers
The Ingrians are descendants of Finnish-speakers who moved to the eastern shores of the Gulf of Finland after Sweden had annexed this area from Russia in the beginning of the 17th century.
Ingrians are usually seen in a positive light, but many take Ingrians for Russians because most of them speak Russian as their mother tongue.
Ingrians have come a long way in history; they have suffered from repression and have not been able to live according to their traditions and ethnicity.
www.uta.fi /FAST/FIN/HIST/en-ingim.html   (2686 words)

  
 World congress on language policies
Ingrians have settled this territory in XVII-th century.
Ingrian was taught at school till the middle of 30-th years of XX century.
Children are interested in Votic language and culture, they sing Votic folk songs that their parents do not know.
www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller1/Agranat.html   (537 words)

  
 Uvean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Vepsi is a perhaps a language - perhaps not.
Ingrians (Ingerlased) were a smallish Finno-Ugric peoples who inhabited the region between Narva and St. Petersburg.
The language is indeed closely related to Estonian.
www.flw.com /languages/vespi.htm   (175 words)

  
 Vot, ihminen tahtoo kotimaalle; English summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It describes the language, the lives and the fates of the Ingrian Finns in Estonia, near the city of Tartu.
The Votes and the Ingrians were converted to the Greek Orthodox religion, which enhanced the status of Russian, since it was the language of the religion.
The Ingrian Finnish villages of Kurkolanniemi have belonged to the Lutheran parish of Narvusi (Russ.
helmer.hit.uib.no /Ingrisk/western.html   (3886 words)

  
 UNPO
The Ingrian Finns population consists of 90,000 persons, many live in Carelia, in the central region of Russian, in Central Asia, in Finland and in Estonia, in Sweden, in Canada, in the USA and in Australia.
The project attempts to give the Ingrian people the hope of an alternative to emigrating to Finland, which is what many younger Ingrians hope for, despite their inability to speak the language (13,000 Ingrian Finns have already migrated to Finland, with another 7,000 expecting to follow).
The objective of the project is to provide employment in the Ingrians own lands with the perspective that it is better to stay on Ingrian home grounds and be employed than move to Finland and be unemployed.
www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=26   (1322 words)

  
 Ingrian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The Balto-Finnic branch consists of Finnish, Estonian, and some comparatively minor languages of the...
- Finno-Ugric language: a Finno-Ugric language that is spoken in an area around the Russian-Estonian border.
Encrypt critical data in applications and databases--with Ingrian's solutions for ensuring complete...
ca.encarta.msn.com /Ingrian.html   (101 words)

  
 Estonica : Society : Development and status of the Estonian language
The first doctor of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonian origin was Mihkel Veske who did research into the history of the Estonian language in the 1870s; the Estonian Writers’ Union, established in 1871, undertook the task of standardising the common language.
In 1919, a professorship of the Estonian language was established at the University of Tartu where Estonian became the language of study in the same year.
At present, research is done into Estonian language matters at the Institute of the Estonian Language in Tallinn, at the University of Tartu, at the Tallinn Pedagogical University, the Estonian Institute of Humanities, and at various research institutions all over the world.
www.estonica.org /eng/lugu.html?menyy_id=61&kateg=38&alam=44   (603 words)

  
 Review of Ural’skie jazyki
The Sámi languages, peripheral as they are from the Russian point of view, are represented by Kildin Sámi alone, and Yurats, an extinct and sparsely documented Samoyed language, is ignored.
It is true that the languages from Pite to North Sámi on the one hand, and those from Skolt to Kildin Sámi on the other, form two chains where there is some mutual intellibility between the neighbouring languages.
Seven Finnic languages are enumerated in their collective chapter by Arvo Laanest, with a further note that some Finnish scholars view Ludian, officially a dialect of Karelian, as a dialect group transitional from Karelian to Vepsian.
www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/review.html   (5144 words)

  
 Uralic Language Family
Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
Languages spoken on the territory of Russia tend to have russified vocabularies.
Uralic languages spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union are written in modified versions of the Cyrillic alphabet.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/UralicLanguageFamily.html   (684 words)

  
 Izhorians - NativeWiki
In 1478 Novgorod Republic, where Ingrians had settled, was united with Grand Duchy of Moscow, some of the Izhorians were transferred to east.
The language, close to Karelian, is used primarily by members of the older generation.
In 1932—1937, Latin letters based written Izhorian language existed, it was taught in schools of the Soikino Peninsula and the area around the mouth of the Luga River.Kurs, Ott (1994).
www.nativewiki.org /Izhorians   (373 words)

  
 Tartto2000
Ingrian Finnish (hereafter IF) is a Finnish dialect that has been spoken in the areas south and south-east of the Gulf of Finland, in the so-called Ingria region of Russia (Finn.
During World War II the Ingrian Finnish community was conclusively fragmented, because one part of the people were in the area occupied by Germans and transferred later to Finland (and back to Russia after the war), while the other part of them was in the Russian zone and transferred to Inner Russia and Siberia.
After the war most of the Ingrian Finns were not allowed to return to Ingria, but they were settled in different parts of Russia.
www.kolumbus.fi /ossi.kokko/Tartto2000.html   (747 words)

  
 History of Finland Summary
Finnish and Sami — the language of Lapland's small indigenous minority — are both Finno-Ugric languages and are in the Uralic rather than the Indo-European family.
The closest related language to the Finnish with an official status is Estonian.
The Finnish language got an influx from the Indo-European Baltic languages (and vice versa) approximately in the period 3500-1000 BC[1], and the Sami languages diverged from standard Finnish.
www.bookrags.com /History_of_Finland   (6927 words)

  
 EUROPA - Education and Training - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
The written language was shaped during the Reformation (1523-1640), with the translation of the complete Bible appearing in 1642.
Because Estonian Finns are mostly of Ingrian Finnish origin (with as self-designation “the Ingrian” [inkeriläinen] or “the Ingrian Finns” [inkerin suomalainen]), they call their language Ingrian Finnish [inkerin suomen kieli], which is not a separate language but an eastern Finnish dialect.
In the 2000 census 11,837 declared to be Finns and 358 to be Ingrians (0.9% of the population).
ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/et2_en.html   (4652 words)

  
 FINNS: Uralic Languge Family
Today the western Uralic and eastern Altaic languages, extend from Scandinavia, Hungary, and the Balkans in the south-west, to the easternmost reaches of the Amur and the island of Sakhalin, and from the Arctic Ocean to central Asia.
All these languages are worth saving, but some may be beyond hope, and we should concentrate on saving the most saveable first, while not forgetting the others.
Hungarian is in the extreme south-west, and the Ob-Ugric languages, Vogul and Ostyak, are situated in the extreme north-east.
uralica.com /langclas.htm   (1611 words)

  
 Tartto2000
Ingrian Finnish (hereafter IF) is a Finnish dialect that has been spoken in the areas south and south-east of the Gulf of Finland, in the so-called Ingria region of Russia (Finn.
During World War II the Ingrian Finnish community was conclusively fragmented, because one part of the people were in the area occupied by Germans and transferred later to Finland (and back to Russia after the war), while the other part of them was in the Russian zone and transferred to Inner Russia and Siberia.
After the war most of the Ingrian Finns were not allowed to return to Ingria, but they were settled in different parts of Russia.
joyx.joensuu.fi /~okokko/Tartto2000.html   (747 words)

  
 Language
None of these languages currently has a literary form, although unsuccessful initial attempts to establish one have been made for all but Votic (for Livonian as early as the 19th century, for the others during the 1930s).
The language of one of the original Baltic-Finnic tribes, Veps, is spoken southeast on a line connecting lower Lake Ladoga with central Lake Onega.
The Ingrians and the Votes live on the southern Gulf of Finland in the border area between Estonia and Russia, where they survived because the border area was for many years closed to outsiders, even to visitors from other parts of the Soviet Union.
web.quipo.it /minola/karelian/language.htm   (438 words)

  
 Estonian - Language Directory
Member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family.
The language occurs in two major dialectal forms, northern and southern; the northern dialect, Tallinn, is used in most of the country and forms the basis of the modern literary language.
In Estonian nouns and pronouns do not have grammatical gender, but nouns and adjectives are declined in fourteen cases: nominative, genitive, partitive, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative, with the case and number of the adjective(s) always agreeing with that of the noun.
language-directory.50webs.com /languages/estonian.htm   (204 words)

  
 Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe
The exclusion of such languages from this report is not intended to imply any bias whatsoever against such “immigrant” languages or their speakers.
For each language, first the name of the language is given in English, followed by the original name of the language in its natural spelling, with a transliteration into Latin letters in parentheses where the original language does not use the Latin script.
In some cases, especially in the case of the “lesser-used” languages, this information may have been inferred from the preferred quotation marks used by a “dominant” language in the area in which the “lesser-used” language is found.
www.evertype.com /alphabets   (3504 words)

  
 Karelian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is chiefly distinguished from standard Finnish by the lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century Finnish.
The dialect spoken in the Karelian Isthmus before World War II and the Ingrian language are also seen as part of this dialect group, in Finland sometimes wrongly denoted as Karelian dialect.
Category:Finno-Ugric languages Category:Languages of Russia Category:Languages of Finland Category:Karelia fr:Carélien pl:Język karelski fi:karjalan kieli
karelian-language.kiwiki.homeip.net   (772 words)

  
 Omniglot - the blog » Blog Archive » Name the language
The title of this song is also the title of the first full-length feature film to be made in this language, which is currently only spoken by a few hundred people.
Musically, the harp to US thinking is most associated with the Celts, although it certainly has strong traditions in many Latin American countries nd undoubtedly in Europe as well.
In the bridge, the violin plays a descending riff landing on a major third, which is typical in Spanish and Mexican musics, which combined with the song’s apparently Celtic leanings perhaps suggests a language of the Franco-Spanish Celts.
www.omniglot.com /blog/2006/10/22/name-the-language-4   (571 words)

  
 Finnish language resources
To sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden, the Finnish language was ardently promoted by both the imperial court and the Finnish government and a strong...
Finnish (suomi (help·info)) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%[2] as mother tongue) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.
It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Finnish.html   (1173 words)

  
 Ingrian, Laukaansuu dialect
The Uralic language family is usually divied to two main branches, to the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.
Ingrian is a Finno-Ugric language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group.
Ingrian is very close to Finnish, and can also be considered as a Finnish dialect.
www.ling.helsinki.fi /uhlcs/metadata/corpus-metadata/uralic-lgs/ingrian/Ingrian-Laukaansuu-dialect.imdi   (554 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.