The Electronic Morphological Dictionary of the Votic Language is a piece of software designed for use on personal computers under Windows. The program translates Votic words into and from Russian and English, generates inflectional paradigms, and plays audio examples.

This dictionary is the result of many years of work by Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus. The collection of material began in 2003 and continued until 2018.

The dictionary contains around 1,800 entries and is based on the Liivtšülä–Luuditsa variety of the Votic language. For inflected lexemes, the dictionary generates full paradigms. It is accompanied by approximately 5,800 audio examples (individual words, word combinations and simple sentences), recorded from the last L1 speakers of Votic.

You can download the dictionary and the audio examples here.

A distinctive feature of this dictionary is its focus on linguistic variation. When working with the last speakers of the language, it is often difficult to determine whether a particular phenomenon is characteristic of the dialect or of an individual speaker. For about 450 entries, the dictionary includes comments indicating which variants occur in the speech of particular speakers. In addition, each entry in the morphological dictionary is provided with information on how the corresponding word of Vaipooli Votic is represented in the Votic dictionaries Tsvetkov (1995) and Grünberg (2013).

The dictionary is based on material recorded from five speakers, to whom we are deeply grateful for their dedicated work with us:
Nikolaj Fedorovič Nesterov (1921–2013)
Praskovja Jakovlevna Kartašova (1928–2018)
Ivan Grigorjevič Georgiev (1928–2016)
Tatjana Fedorovna Prokopenko (1935–2006)
Zinaida Andreevna Saveljeva (born 1938)

We welcome any feedback. You can find our contact details in the About Us section.

Initial work on the dictionary was supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities, “The Morphological Dictionary of the Votic Language and the Development of the Votic Inflectional System” (2012–2014). The completion of the project was funded by a grant from the Kindred Languages Programme (2020), “Vadja keele morfoloogiline sõnastik: raamat ja e-ressurss”, and by a grant from the Kadri, Nikolai and Gerda Rõugu Foundation, “Completing the Electronic Morphological Dictionary of Votic” (2024–2025).

The authors of the dictionary are very grateful to Polina Oskolskaia for her assistance in selecting and cutting the audio examples.

Updated on

05.03.2026