On this website we upload some useful resources on the Votic and Ingrian languages. At the moment, these are two:

● the morphological dictionary of Soikkola Ingrian;

● the texts collection and grammatical description of Western Votic.

Votic and Ingrian are Finnic languages (the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family). Votic is a southern Finnic language mostly close to Estonian. Ingrian belongs to the northern group and is most closely related to Finnish and Karelian. According to Köppen (1867), there were 5148 Votes and 18489 Ingrians as of 1848. At present, both languages are almost extinct. We estimate the number of current Votic speakers as a range from 0 to 5 depending on the language capacity (there are no fluent L1 speakers left). The number of Ingrian speakers is around 5 people. With rarest exceptions, these are very elderly people. The last speakers of Votic represented the westernmost dialect Vaipooli Votic. Eastern, Central, and Krevin Votic dialects were extinct before we started working with Votic. Among the Ingrian dialects, Soikkola and Lower Luga Ingrian are still spoken; Oredeži and Hevaha dialects are extinct.