Vod
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- Language: Vod
- Alternate names: Votian, Vote, Vodian, Votish, Votic
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:vot
- Language family: Uralic, Finnic
- Number of speakers: 25
- Script: Cyrillic script, Latin script
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Introduction
Vod is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. It is closely related to Estonian. Vod is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two villages in the Kingisepp district, and is close to extinction.
The Verb
Vod alphabet.
Vod has six tenses, two of which are basic: present, imperfect; and the rest of which are compound tenses: present perfect, past perfect, future and future perfect. There are three moods (conditional, imperative, potential), and two 'voices' (active and passive).
Caution however should be used with the term 'passive', with Baltic-Finnic languages though as a result of the fact that it is more active and 'impersonal' (it has an oblique 3rd person marker, and so is not really 'passive').
Sample verb: juwwa 'to drink'
| INDICATIVE | POTENTIAL | CONDITIONAL | IMPERATIVE | ||
| Present | Past | ||||
| Sg.1 | jôn | jõin | jônenen | jõisêsin | - |
| Sg.2 | jôt | jõit | jônenet | jõisêsit | jô |
| Sg.3 | jôb | jõi | jôneneb | jõisêsi | - |
| Pl.1 | jômma | jõimma | jônenemma | jõisêsimma | - |
| Pl.2 | jôtta | jõitta | jônenetta | jõisêsitta | jôkô |
| Pl.3 | jôvat | jõiwat | jônewat | jõisêsivat | - |
References
- Ahlqvist, August. Wotisk grammatik. Wotisk grammatik. Helsinki. 1885.
- Ahlqvist, August. Wotisk grammatik. Acta societatis scientiarum fennicae. Helsinki. 1855.