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Re: Obscure languages

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, September 29, 2001, 20:13
Frank Valoczy wrote:
>If you want, I can help you with learning Votian >(Uralic/Finno-Ugric/Balto-Finnic; spoken by approx. 25 people in 5 >villages [incl. Krakolye and Luzhitsy] in Leningrad Oblast, north of >Ivangorod in Russia), youngest speaker is in his early 60s).
Which means it's alot better of than Ingrian (Balto-Finnic, spoken in St Petersburg) - the last I heard it had three native speakers, all over 60, and that was three or four years ago. (Ingria is an old name pf the area that St Petersburg lies in - once upon a time it was the Swdish province of Ingermanland). BTW, is it still officially called Leningrad Oblast? That'd be pretty remarkable ...
>Obviously I'm >not a native speaker, but my knowledge of it is thorough enough that I >could carry on a conversation with a Vote in the unlikely event that I >were to meet one. However, I do use it occasionally in speaking with >Estonians, sometimes with amusing results.
How come you know Votian? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>