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  Veps language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Veps language, spoken by the Vepses, belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages.
According to Soviet statistics 8,000 people were self-designated Veps speakers at the end of the 1970s.
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, including the Veps Autonomous Rural district), Central Veps (in the Saint Petersburg region), and Southern Veps (in the Vologda Oblast).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veps_language   (201 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Southern Veps live in the eastern part of the St. Petersburg region, on the northwestern edge of the Vologda province, on the River Leedjõgi.
Veps schools were closed, textbooks were burned, teachers were put in prison, and some ethnic intellectuals even lost their lives as a result of their nationality (among them a Veps ethnographer, Stepan Makaryev).
In 1989, a Veps Cultural Society was formed, with the aim of rekindling a Veps' sense of identity, and increasing the Veps' respect for their language, history and culture.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/veps.shtml   (1764 words)

  
 Veps language
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.
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).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ve/Veps_language.html   (153 words)

  
 Barentsinfo : Ulapland.fi/Kotisivut/Barents portal/Content by Category/Indigenous people/Veps
The loss of language is also a reality for the Karelians, since only 51.5% of them considered Karelian to be their native language in 1989.
The Finnish language has the status of an official language after Russian, although the Finns are late newcomers in the Republic of Karelia.
Veps live in the southern part of the Republic of Karelia and in the Leningrad and Volodga Oblasts.
www.barentsinfo.org /?deptid=15095   (582 words)

  
 Finno-Ugric language family
Komi language is included into the Finno-Ugric language family and forms a Permic group of the Finno-Ugric languages with the Udmurt language, which is the closest to Komi.
Totally 16 languages are included into Finno-Ugric family, which were developed from the united basic language in the deepest antiquity: Hungarian, Mansi, Khanty (The Group of the Ugric languages), Komi, Udmurt (Permic group), Mari, two Mordvin languages - Erzya and Moksha, Balto-Finnic languages - Finnish, Karelian, Izhora, Veps, Vod, Estonian, Liv languages.
In 1918 the Syktyvkar dialect was chosen as a base for the Komi literary language, because it was the central dialect among the Komi ones geographically and linguistically.
www.geocities.com /Athens/2282/finno.html   (5839 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
As far as the Sami people Samic (''Lappic'') languages are concerned, a hypothesis has been advanced that the ancestors of the Sami people Sami originally spoke a different language, but adopted their current Finnic speech under the pressure of their Finnic-speaking neighbours.
The Finno-Ugric languages are also famous for having a large number of grammatical Declension cases, of which Finnish has at least 15 and Hungarian has at least 24.
Another dispute surrounds the affinity of the Yukaghir languages, which is traditionally regarded as a language isolate, with some scholars proposing a strong affinity to Uralic (Collinder, 1965).
www.mauspfeil.net /Finno-Ugric_languages.html   (2523 words)

  
 The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII: Bronze Age in Eurasia
HOLLIS equates Nuristani with Dardic 28, with Bashgali 29, and with the Kafiri languages 30 (Bashgali, Dardic, and Nuristani are languages of Afghanistan).
The Tokharian language is synonymous with Yueh Cheh.
The Livonians, from a small area in Latvia, speak the Livonian language, the Mansi of the Ob Valley in Siberia and the Tavda Valley in Russia speak the Mansi language, the Mari speak the Mari language, and the Mordvins speak the Mordvin language with dialects of Erzya and Moksha.
www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterVII.html   (12823 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: Tribal Portraits -- August 29, 2005 / Vol. 166 No. 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Delicacies like these are traditional fare for the Veps, an ancient Finnish-Ugric tribe that first settled in the region in the 6th century, and Levkina still prepares the food the way her ancestors did centuries ago.
But under Stalin's policy of forced assimilation, Veps scholars, teachers and writers were jailed or shot; the Veps language was banned; and Veps land was carved up among Russia's Karelia, Leningrad and Vologda regions.
The Veps Culture Society, founded in 1988, was crucial in restoring the language and encouraging the publication of primers, textbooks and dictionaries.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901050829-1096431,00.html   (721 words)

  
 Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Veps language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Veps (Vepsian) language - one of the Finno-Ugric languages (Balto-Finnic group).
Spoken in the Republic of Karelia (Veps national district), Leningrad and Vologda regions.
A Veps written language was created in the 1930's, but was soon discontinued.
www.peoples.org.ru /eng_veps.html   (176 words)

  
 Bulltin 32
Veps had their own linguists, writers, published school textbooks, etc. There were some discussions whether Veps language should be written with Latin or Cyrillic alphabet, but it was obvious that many sounds of the language could be expressed only with Latin letters.
The known Veps history started about 2 000 years ago when Veps moved from the Ladoga lake area to their present areas of habitat in Karelia, Leningrad and Vologda oblasts and forced out the Sami who lived there before.
Veps live at the Southern part of Karelia republic, in the North East of the Leningrad oblast and the North West of the Vologda oblast.
www.indigenous.ru /english/bulletin/e_32.htm   (3064 words)

  
 Kratkiy Grammaticheskiy Ucherk Vepskogo Jazyka
Stress in Veps, as in the other Balto-Finnic languages, is always on the first syllable.
The following parts of speech are found in the Veps language: substantives, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, postpositions and prepositions, and interjections.
The substantives, as well as adjectives, numerals and pronouns, are declined according to case and number.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/3259/kratkiy.html   (391 words)

  
 Life of Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The corpus is donated to the University of Helsinki Language Corpus Server by Institute for Bible Translation.
The Uralic language family is divided to two main branches, to the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.
Veps is a Finno-Ugric language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic sub-branch.
www.ling.helsinki.fi /uhlcs/metadata/corpus-metadata/uralic-lgs/veps/Veps-Life-of-Jesus.imdi   (357 words)

  
 Regional Ethnic Groups
The historical homeland of the Veps - Mezhozerje - is the territory between Ladoga, Onega and White lakes.
Major Vep population centers are Podporozhsky, Boxitogorsk, Tikhvin and Lodejnopolsky districts.
Unlike Veps and Izhora the Finns-Ingermanlandians are a relatively young ethnic group, which appeared in the 17th century after Finnish colonists populated the territory received by Sweden as a result of the to the Stolbov peace treaty (1617).
eng.lenobl.ru /economics/indicators/demographics/ethnicgroups   (566 words)

  
 Chud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other sources suggest that ancient Chuds spoke a Baltic-Finnic language similar to the Veps language.
The earliest known record of the word Chud is found in Jordanes' geographical work (ca.
Folk etymology, however, derives the word either from Old East Slavic language (chuzhoi, 'foreign'; or chudnyi 'odd'; or chud 'weird') or from a Saami ('thief').
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chudes   (660 words)

  
 Chair of Karelian and Veps languages - Petrozavodsk State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Syntax of Karelian language (Karelian and Livvik dialects)
Jointly with the Chair of Karelian and Veps languages of Karelian State Pedagogical Institute the chair prepares educational supplies for the courses of Karelian and Veps languages.
The project "Publishing educational supplies on Veps and Karelian grammar" is aimed to prepare for publication the following educational supplies "Verb in Veps language" (N.G.Zaitseva) and "A collection of exercises in Karelian language.
www.petrsu.ru:8085 /psu/Chairs/kar_lang_e.html   (693 words)

  
 Finno-Ugric Languages, subfamily of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Veps is spoken around Lake Onega in northwestern Russia, Ingrian to the west of Saint Petersburg on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and Votic to the west of Saint Petersburg near the Estonian border.
Sometimes grouped together as the Volgaic branch, Mari (or Cheremis) and Mordvin, consisting of the Erzya and Moksha languages, are spoken in the western and middle regions of the Volga River.
Attempts to connect the Finno-Ugric subfamily with other language families, notably with the Turkic branch of the Altaic languages and the Indo-European languages, have produced evidence of similarities, but not enough to prove any connection conclusively.
www.sfu.ca /~akocheto/finnougric.htm   (431 words)

  
 Smaller Baltic-Finnic groups (from Uralic languages) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia ...
The Karelians, Veps, and Livonians were among the original Baltic-Finnic tribes; Votic is considered to be an offshoot of Estonian, and Ingrian a remote branch of Karelian.
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).
A small Baltic-Finnic group, composed of the Ludic dialects, is found between Veps and Karelian and is generally considered a blend of the two major groups rather than a separate language; the dialects are more closely akin to Karelian.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-74937?tocId=74937   (1209 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Vod language is on the verge of disappearance, because not more than 30 speakers...
In 1944 together with Martti Airila and Aimo Turunen he created a Veps language textbook "Vepsän opas", that was build on the basis on Northen Veps dialect.
The Udmurts speak the Udmurt language in the Vyatka River region, the Veps speak the Veps language, and the Votes people speak a Vote language.
veps_language.iqexpand.com   (468 words)

  
 Uralic Languages
The name of the language family refers to the location of the family’s suggested Urheimat (homeland), which is often placed close to the Ural mountains.
The healthiest Uralic languages, in terms of the number of native speakers and national identity, are Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian.
Note that all Uralic languages have verbs with the meaning of "own" or "possess", but these words are not used in the same way as English "have".
plasurgeryinfo.clubblogs.com /Estonian_language/Uralic_languages   (1179 words)

  
 Veps - 4Vep/3Vep/4Vop (Class 423)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Det du har observert er en nematode (rundorm) som går spesielt i veps.
Veps language, spoken by the Vepses, belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the According to Soviet statistics 8000 people were self-designated Veps
The early batches of Veps were delivered in overall blue, small yellow Veps 7741/42 were formed but 7739 could not since in the interim some cars had
www.ehxj.com /?q=veps   (310 words)

  
 Ice-Floe: Contributors by Language: Bokman, Chukchi, Danish, Dena'ina, Dolgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
view contributors by the language in which their poems were originally written
His accounts of traditional stories, language and history lessons, translations, and original compositions did much to preserve Dena'ina language and oral traditions.
A collection of her complete work was recently published in Japan in the Dolgan, Russian, and Japanese languages.
www.icefloepress.org /contrib-lang.shtml   (455 words)

  
 Veps language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
not changing the situation that the language must be understood as in stern threat of extinction.
and Southern Veps (in the Vologda Oblast (Vologda oblast ()...)
Moksha language (The moksha language is spoken mostly in south of the republic of mordovia in russia....)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/veps_language   (741 words)

  
 Language
language areas of the Italic and neighboring languages, 250 BC Sorbian family tree
major divisions of the Tai and related languages
"language areas of the Italic and neighboring languages, 250 BC."
home.wanadoo.nl /arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees   (39 words)

  
 Veps - Category:Veps language - Wiktionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mackintosh, who titles her VEPS speech "How Much Laughter Is Too Much?," has Since its inception by volunteers in 1991, VEPS has allocated almost
I tillegg kan du oppdatere deg på fornuftig kunnskap om hoggorm og veps.
Veps live in the southern part of the Republic of Karelia and in the Leningrad and The Veps are spread over quite a large area and the groups living in
webinfofeed.com /wifd/veps.htm   (380 words)

  
 Karelian language: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Karelian language is a variety ((biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differe from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics)
It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages (The finno-ugric languages form a subfamily of the uralic languages....)
Attempts to standardize (A standard language (also standard dialect or standardized dialect) is a particular variety of a language...)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/karelian_language   (2350 words)

  
 Veps
Petrozavodsk State University - Chair of Karelian and Veps Languages - Courses taught and research conducted in these two languages at the state university of the Republic of Karelia (a component of the Russian Federation).
The Teacher of Vepsian - These pages are devoted to the efforts of preserving the Vepsian language and culture.
Vepsika: Joint Catalogue of Literature in the Vepsian Language - A catalog of books in the Veps language held by national and academic libraries in the Republic of Karelia.
www.supercrawler.com /Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages/Uralic/Veps   (141 words)

  
 math lessons - Merya language
The Merya language was the Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Merya tribe, which lived in what is today the Moscow region.
Next to nothing is known about the language, but it was probably related to the Veps language and the Muromian language.
Meryan probably became extinct in the Middle ages, as the Meryas were assimilated by the Slavs.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Merya_language   (84 words)

  
 Vepsian - Главная страница.
Vepsia Veps (Vepsian) language - one of the Finno-Ugric languages (Balto-Finnic group).
It was not allowed to teach in the Vepsian language.
alphabet and area map for vepsian language, information on script and language family, lists the number of vepsian language users.
erhx.com /?q=vepsian   (276 words)

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