Votian

w:Votic is a Finnic language spoken only by few people in Russian Kingissepp district. However there are significant collections of folklore kept mainly in Russia, Finland and Estonia. Moreover Votic songs are still sung by some Estonians and there are people trying to revitalize North-Eastern dialects of Estonia, which have been interpreted as Estonian dialects of strong Votic influence or even completely independent Finnic dialects .

Current project will focus on grammatical analyse of all those dialects spoken both in Russia and Estonia.

Syllabus

1. Introduction
   1. Phonology
   2. Dialects
2. Verb
   1. Imperative
      1. 2. person
         1. Introduction to morphophonology
      2. 3. person
      3. Prohibition
      4. Indefinite voice
   2. Indicative
      1. Present tense
         1. Negation
         2. Indefinite voice
         3. Answering commands
      2. Imperfect tense
      3. Perfect tense
      4. Pluperfect tense
   3. Conditional
   4. Potential
   5. Optative
   6. Eventive
3. Interrogatives (questions)
   1. Answering questions
4. Nouns
   1. Cases
      1. Nominative
         1. Nominative plural
      2. Locative cases
         1. External locative cases
            1. Singular
            2. Plural
         2. Internal locative cases
            1. Illative
      3. Essive cases
         1. Essive
         2. Exessive
         3. Translative
      4. Abessive
      5. Komitative
      6. Main cases
         1. Genitive
         2. Instructive
         3. Partitive
5. Postpositions and prepositions
6. Pronouns
   1. Interrogative pronouns
   2. Indefinite pronouns
   3. Demonstrative pronouns
   4. Personal pronouns
   5. Reflexive pronouns
   6. Reciprocal pronouns
      1. Compound sentences
7. Comparison
   1. Comparison of Adjectives
   2. Comparison of Adverbs
8. Numerals
   1. Cardinal numbers
      1. Numeral phrases
      2. Compound numerals
   2. Ordinal numbers
9. Morphophonology
   1. Vowel harmony
   2. Consonant stems
   3. Consonant gradation
10. Infinitive verbal forms
    1. Participles
    2. Infinitives
11. Syntax
12. Vocabulary

See also

• w:Votic
• Ariste, Paul (1968). A Grammar of the Votic Language. Bloomington: Indiana University. ISBN 978-0877-50024-7. 
• Ethnologue report on Votic
• Votian at Indigenous Minority Languages of Russia
• Virtual Votia
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire