Indigenous Minority Languages of Russia

Votian: Bibliographical guide

About the Votian language

Uralic, Finno-Ugric branch, Baltic-Finnic group.

Where the speakers live

The Votians are indigenous inhabitants of the North-Western part of the historical Ingermanland, the present Leningrad Region. At present some Votians can only be found in the villages of Krakolye (Jõgõperä) and Luzhitsy (Luditsa) in Kingisepp District. Luzhitsy also incorporates the former Pesky (Liivčülä) village. The last Votian woman of the Mezhniky (Rajo) village died in 1993. There were a few Votians in the village of Kotly (Kattila) who remembered some words in Votian at the beginning of the 1990s, but they could no longer speak their ethnic language.

TEACHING MATERIALS

None.

BASIC DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES

Description of the language system

• Ariste P. A grammar of the Votic language. Indiana University Publications. Uralic and Altaic Series. Vol. 68. Bloomington Ind., 1968.
• Heinsoo H. Vatjan kielen tutkimisesta ja nykytilanteesta. Virittäjä, 1991.
• Kettunen L. Vatjan kielen äännehistoria. Helsinki, 1930.
• Viitso T-R. Vadja keele Luutsa-Liivtsülä murraku fonollogia. // Emakeele Seltsi aastaraamat. VII. Tallinn, 1961.
• Адлер Э. Водский язык. // Языки народов СССР. Т. III.
  (Adler Ye. The Votian language. The languages of the peoples of USSR. Vol. III)
• Финно-угорские и самодийские языки. М., 1966.
  (Adler E. The Votian language. // Languages of peoples of the USSR Vol 3. Finno-Ugric and Samoyed languages. Moscow, 1966)
• Лаанест А. Водский язык. // Языки мира. Уральские языки. М., 1993.
  (Laanest A. The Votian language. // Languages of the World. Uralic languages. Moscow, 1993)
• Пеэгель Ю. О некоторых поэтических синонимах в эстонских, водских и ижорских народных песнях. // Всесоюзное совещание по вопросам финно-угорской филологии. Петрозаводск, 1961.
  (Peegel Yu. On some poetic synonyms in Estonian, Votian and Izhorian folk songs. // All-Union conference on Finno-Ugric Philology. Petrozavodsk, 1961)
• Сабо Л. Очерки по синтаксису водского языка. АКД. Ленинград, 1963.
  (Sabo L. Essay on Votian syntax. Author's abstract of Ph.D. Dissertation. Leningrad, 1963)
• Сабо Л. Порядок слов в определительных конструкциях в водском языке. // Прибалтийско-финское языкознание. Ленинград, 1967.
  (Sabo L. The word order in Votian attributive constructions. // Baltic-Finnish linguistics. Leningrad, 1967)
• Хейнсоо Х. Взаимоотношение сказуемого и подлежащего в водском языке. АКД. Тарту, 1987.
  (Heinsoo H. Interrelation of the predicate and the subject in the Votian language. Abstract of PhD. Dissertation. Tartu, 1987)

Dictionaries

• Kettunen L. Vatjan kielen Mahun murteen sanasto. Toim. Jarmo Elomaa, Eino Koponen ja Leena Silferberg. Castrenianumin toimitteita 27. Helsinki, 1986.
• Posti L., Suhonen S. Vatjan kielen Kukkosin murteen sanakirja. Helsinki, 1980.
• Tsvetkov D. Vatjan kielen Joenperän murteen sanasto. Helsinki, 1995.
• Vadja keele sõnaraamat I. Toim. Adler E. ja Leppik M. Eesti TA KK. AE Signalet. Tallinn, 1990.
• Vadja keele sõnaraamat II. Toim. Adler E. ja Leppik M. Eesti TA KK. AE Signalet. Tallinn, 1995.
• Vatjan käänteissanasto. Toim. Laakso J. Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja 49. Helsinki, 1989.

Texts

• Alava V. Vatjalaisia häätapoja, häälauluja ja -itkuja. Helsinki, 1908.
• Ariste P. Wotische Sprachproben. Õpetatud Eesti Seltsi Aastaraamat. 1933. Tartu, 1935.
• Ariste P. Vadja Keelenaiteid. Tartu, 1941.
• Ariste P. Vadja muinasjutte. // Emakeele Seltsi Toimetised. Nr.4. Tallinn, 1962.
• Ariste P. Vadjalaste laule. Tallinn, 1960.
• Kettunen L. ja Posti L. Näytteitä vatjan kielestä. // MSFOu LXIII. Helsinki, 1932.
• Mägiste J. Woten Erzählen. Wotische Sprachproben. // MSFOu 118. Helsinki, 1959.

BASIC SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES

• Öpik E. Vadjalastest ja isurites VXIII sajandi lopul. Ethnograafilisi ja lingvistilisi materjale Fjodor Tumanski Peterburi kubermangu kirjelduses. Toimetanud. A. Viires. Tallinn, 1970.
• Tsvetkov D. Vadjalased. // Eesti keel IV, 1925.
• Агеева Р.А. Водский язык. // Красная книга языков народов России. Энциклопедический словарь-справочник. М., 1994.
  (Ageeva R. A. The Votian language. // Red book of the languages of Russia. The Encyclopaedia. Moscow, 1994)
• Агранат Т., Шошиташвили И. Водский язык: в конце пути. // Малые языки Евразии: социо-лингвистический аспект. М., 1997.
  (Agranat T., Shoshitaishvili I. The Votian language: in the end of the road. // Minor languages of Europe and Asia: Sociolinguistic aspect. Moscow, 1997)
• Аристэ П. Пути отмирания двух прибалтийско-финских языков. // Проблемы языкознания. Доклады и сообщения советских учёных на X Международном конгрессе лингвистов. М., 1967.
  (Ariste P. The way to extinction of two Baltic-Finnish languages. // Problems of linguistics. Papers presented by Soviet scholars at the X International linguistic congress. Moscow, 1967)
• Хейнсоо Х. Водь и её этно-культурное состояние. // Прибалтийско-финские народы. История и судьба родственных народов. Ювяскюля, 1995.
  (Heinsoo H. Votians and their ethnic culture. // Baltic-Finnish peoples. History and destiny of related peoples. 1995)