Seto dialect

Not to be confused with the Seto dialect of Gun.
Seto
seto kiil´
Native to Estonia
Region Southern Estonia
Ethnicity Setos
Native speakers
13,000 (2011 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog seto1241[2]
South Estonian today. Seto is marked with light red colour.
Percentage of Seto speakers in Estonian municipalities according to the Estonian census 2011.

Seto (seto kiil´;[3] Estonian: setu keel) is a dialect of the South Estonian or Võro language (although the Setos generally do not identify as Võro speakers), spoken by 12,549[1] people. It is sometimes considered as a language. The speakers, Seto people, mostly inhabit the area near Estonia's southeastern border with Russia, in the county of Setomaa.

Language sample

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

References

  1. 1 2 Statistikaamet
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Seto". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Seto language @ google scholar


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