Votian/Dialect classification

Votian dialects
=== Classification     ===


 * Votic
 * Eastern Votic dialect
 * Kabrio dialect (Russian: Копорья)
 * Itšäpäivä - Kozlova dialect
 * Kozlova dialect (Russian: Козлово)
 * Iivanaisi dialect (Russian: Ивановское)
 * Mahu dialect (Russian: Подмошье)
 * Kliimettina dialect (Russian: Климетино)
 * Itšäpäivä dialect (Russian: Ицепино)
 * Western Votic dialects
 * Hill dialect:
 * Kõrstõva ~ Kerstova dialect (Russian: Керстово)
 * Tšitširitsa ~ Kikeritsa dialect (Russian: Кикерицы)
 * Pihlaala dialect (Russian: Пиллово)
 * Rudja dialect (Russian: Рудилово)
 * Rannala dialect (Russian: Раннолово)
 * Lempola dialect (Russian: Лемполово)
 * Pummala dialect (Russian: Пумалица)
 * Kattila dialect (Russian: Котлы)
 * Untovõõ ~ Undova dialect (Russian: Ундово)
 * Valley dialect:
 * Jarvikoištšülä dialect (Russian: Бабино)
 * Savvokkala dialect (Russian: Савикино)
 * Mati dialect (Russian: Маттия)
 * Kõrvõttula dialect (Russian: Корвитино)
 * Mataucio dialect (Russian: Матовка)
 * Veertävä dialect (Russian: Вердия)
 * Muukkova dialect (Russian: Мукково)
 * Pontizõõ - Velikkä dialect
 * Velikkä dialect (Russian: Великино)
 * Pontizõõ dialect (Russian: Понтилово)
 * Valkovitsa dialect (Russian: Валговицы)
 * Koskolova dialect (Russian: Косколово)
 * Kahcizõõ dialect (Russian: Березняки)
 * Vaipooli dialect:
 * Luuditsa - Liivtšülä dialect
 * Rüsümätši dialect (Russian: Верхние Лужицы, Finnish: Risumäki)
 * Luutsa ~ Luuditsa dialect (Russian: Лужицы)
 * Liivtšülä dialect (Russian: Пески)
 * Jõgõperä - Rajo dialect
 * Jõgõperä dialect (Russian: Кроколье)
 * Rajo dialect (Russian: Межники)
 * Narvuzi dialect (Russian: Куземкино)
 * Kreevin dialect (Latvian: Kreeviš ~ Krievinsh ('a Russian'), hence Russian: кревинг) dialect was still alive in 1846 near Bauska (German: Marienland or Bauske) in Latvian Zemgale, noted by the academician A. Sjögren. In the 1440s the knight Heidenreich Vinke von Overberg deported Votic war prisoners - their ancestors to Courland.
 * Kukkuzi dialect (Russian: Куровицы) dialect is traditionally classified as Votic under strong Ingrian influence, but T-R. Viitsoo opposed this claim as a linguistic nonsense. We might talk about Votic substratum here instead and also in other Ingrian dialects of lower Laugaz valley (Russian: Усть-Луга): Kotko (Орлы), Mannakka (Манновка), Teesuu (Извоз), Haavikko (Кейкино) etc. and less obviously in surroundings of river Rosona (Russian: Росона)..

Following dialects of Estonia share distinctive features with Votic and might have been originally closer to Votic than to Estonian dialects. :
 * Alutaguse dialects:  The most characteristic of which was the speech of Lüganuse parish.
 * Lüganuse dialect
 * Jõhvi dialect
 * Northern and central Iisaku dialect
 * Western and central Vaivara dialect
 * Vaiga or East-Estonian dialects:  The most characteristic of which was the speech of Kodavere and north-eastern Maarja-Magdaleena parishes..
 * nucleus: (central and northern Kodavere, north-eastern Maarja-Magdaleena)
 * northern: (northern Torma and Avinurme, north-eastern corner of Laiuse, south-western Iisaku - espescially Tudulinna area)
 * central: (the rest of Torma, eastern Laiuse, eastern Palamuse, central Maarja-Magdaleena)
 * southern: (Äksi, southern Maarja-Magdaleena)

Votic substratum is found also in Finnish dialects of Western-Ingria e.g. Lutheran parts of Kattila (Russian: Котлы) and Novoselkka, Kurgolovo (Russian: Курголово) - Suakyla (Russian: Дубровка). There are some remarques about extinct Finnic dialect of Gdov (Russian: Гдов) area - Dobrychinskaya (Russian: Добручинская) municipality.

(The distribution of Votic villages in this classification needs further confirmation.)