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Name: Veps Alternate Names: Vepsian; vepsä; lüüd; vesj; chudj; Wepsisch; vepse; lüd; vepsy; Veps (in French); Vepsio (in Spanish); Vepsä; Vepsisch; l΄üd'ikel΄; vepsskij jazyk Spoken in: Russia Number of speakers: 5,750 (2002 census). Ethnic population: 8,240 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 5753 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 6355 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: vep Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed) Parent Subgroup: Finnic; Baltic-Fennic; Baltic Finnic; Balto-Finnic; ostseefinnische Sprachen; Ostseefinnisch; Späturfinnisch; West Finnic; Baltic-Finnic; balto-finnois; Balto-Fennic; Fennic; Baltic sea Finnic; Proto-Finnic (bfin) Child Dialects: Southern Veps; South Veps; südwepsischer Dialekt; Südvepsisch (vep-sou) Prionezh; Northern Veps; North Veps; Ljudjikelu; nordwepsischer Dialekt; Nordvepsisch; severnoe narečie; prionežskoe narečie (vep-pri) Central Veps; Bepsan Keli; mittelwepsischer Dialekt; Mittelvepsisch (vep-cen)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed