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Native Speakers Worldwide

< 50,000?

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The Võru language in Estonia: An Overview of a Language in Context
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

< 50,000?

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More about speakers

"The number of active and passive (potential) Võru speakers is estimated at 50,000. However, it is counted on the basis of self-reports and can easily be over-estimated."

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Estonia

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Location description

Southern Estonia

Government support

Võru is not recognised as a language in Estonia but it is addressed as ‘regional variety’ by the Language Act (2011) which regulates official and public language use.

Institutional support

Võru is not addressed by educational legislation

Speakers’s attitudes

"A survey from 1998 indicates that Võru is a less prestigious language which may have covert prestige among some users."

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Southern Estonia

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Other languages used

Estonian

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

57.8096, 27.29

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

~50,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Estonia; Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

Spoken in the southeastern corner of Estonia and in Pechory ounty in the rest of Pskov Province in the Russian Federation.

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Other writing systems

Spoken in the southeastern corner of Estonia and in Pechory ounty in the rest of Pskov Province in the Russian Federation.

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