Vepsians

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Veps
Baltic Finns

Veps, or Vepsians (

Finnic people who speak the Veps language, which belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages
.

According to the 2002 census, there were 8,240 Veps in Russia. Of the 281 Veps in Ukraine, 11 spoke Vepsian (Ukr. Census 2001).

The self-designations of these people in various dialects are vepslaine, bepslaane and (in northern dialects, southwest of Lake Onega) lüdinik and lüdilaine. Almost all Vepsians are fluent in Russian. The younger generation, in general, does not speak Vepsian although many have an understanding of the language.[5]

Geography

See also: Vepsian Upland
Map of the Vepsians in 2010[image reference needed]

In modern times, they live in the area between

Oyat River in the Podporozhsky and Lodeynopolsky Districts and further south in the Tikhvinsky and Boksitogorsky Districts, and in Vologda Oblast in the Vytegorsky and Babayevsky Districts.[6]

History

Prehistory

Archeological and linguistic studies suggest that Vepsians lived in the valleys of the

Principality of Novgorod
and other Russian states. Later Vepsians also inhabited the western and eastern shores of Onega.

Historical period

Varangian cultures in Eastern Europe
, in the 9th century.

In early

Muscovy. Russian settlement reached the Onega Veps in the 14th or 15th century.[9] Eastern Vepsians in the Kargopol
area merged linguistically with the Russians before the 20th century.

The existence of the Vepsian people was not widely known until the mid-19th century. Despite its close relationship to the Karelian and the Finnish languages, the Vepsian language was thus one of the last Uralic languages to be recognized as one.

Vepsians numbered 25,607 in 1897. Some 7,300 of them inhabited

Continuation War, some Vepsians joined the so-called Kindred Battalion of the Finnish Army. These troops were relinquished to the Soviet Union after the war.[9][10][11]

In the postwar period many Veps moved from their historic villages to larger cities. In 1983, on the initiative of national academics, an inquiry was carried out which showed that there were nearly 13,000 Veps in the Soviet Union, 5,600 of whom lived in Karelia, 4,000 in the Leningrad region and just under a 1,000 in the Vologda region.[9] The new Vepsian primer Abekirj and other elementary school books were published in Petrozavodsk in 1991. Kodima, a newspaper in Vepsian, has been published since 1993. The Vepsian rural community was formed in East Karelia in 1994, encompassing 8,200 square kilometers of land and 3,373 inhabitants, 42% of them Vepsian. The authorities of the Republic of Karelia granted some budgetary autonomy to the Vepsian community in 1996. The language was taught as a subject in two schools, in Shyoltozero and Rybreka [ru]. However, the cultural revival slowed in the second half of the 1990s and the federal authorities abolished the autonomy in 2006. Nowadays the younger generation in general does not speak the language.[11]

Demographics

Since

Ethnic Minority's in Russia were accurate.[14]

Population Change (%)
1897
 25,607 0%
1926 32,800 +28%
1937 29,500 -10%
1939 31,500 +6.7%
1959 16,400 -47.9%
1970 8,000 -51.2%
1979 8,000 0%
1989 12,501 +56.2%
2002 8,240 -34%
2010 5,936 -27.9%
2021 4,534 -23.6%

Genetics

Estimated ancestry components among selected Eurasian populations, including Vepsians (Jeong et al. 2019).

Vepsians cluster with Karelians and Finns.[15] They share most of their autosomal ancestry with Europeans, but about 12% of their ancestry is Nganasan-like.[15][16] The Nganasan-related component is linked to the spread of Uralic languages.[15] Vepsians share more IBD (identity-by-descent) segments with several Uralic-speaking populations, including geographically distant ones like the Mansis and the Nganasans, than with Russians or other non-Uralic groups near to them. They have significant IBD segment sharing with the Turkic-speaking Dolgans from Siberia, too.[15]

The most common maternal haplogroups among Vepsians include

U5 (16.8%), showing similarity with other Baltic Finnic groups. 56.4% of Vepsian men have the haplogroup N, which is of East Eurasian origin and commonly found among Uralic-speaking populations. 38.5% belong to the subclade N1a1a (M178) and 17.9% have the subclade N-P43. The second most common Y-DNA haplogroup among the Veps is R1a (35.9%).[15]

Notable Vepsians
Vepsians Museum — in Shyoltozero,
Republic of Karelia, northwestern Russia.

Further reading

  • Kurs, Ott (March 2001). "The Vepsians: An administratively divided nationality".
    S2CID 153956031
    .

References

  1. ^ Russian census 2010 Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Ukrainian census 2001". Ukrcensus.gov.au. Retrieved 24 October 2017.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Population by Ethnic Nationality, Mother Tongue, Citizenship, Sex, Age Group and Place of Residence, 31 December 2011". Pub.stat.ee. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Население по национальности и родному языку" [Population by nationality and mother language] (PDF). Перепись населения Республики Беларусь 2009 года (in Russian). Нацыянальны статыстычны камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь. 12 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Russian Veps: We talk to the Finns without an interpreter".
  6. ^ "L'extinction d'un peuple finno-ougrien: les Vepses". Regard-est.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  7. ^ Toivo Vuorela 1960, Suomensukuiset kansat, p. 103
  8. ^ Saressalo 2005, Vepsa Maa, Kansa, Kulttuuri, p. 13
  9. ^ a b c "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire". Eki.ee. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  10. ^ Ott Kurs (1994). "Vepsians: the easternmost Baltic-Finnic people". Terra. 107: 127–135.
  11. ^
    S2CID 153956031
    .
  12. ^ "VEPSES". www.suri.ee. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  13. ^ "Russia Population (2024) - Worldometer". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  14. ^ Coalson, Robert (2023-02-05). "Russia's 2021 Census Results Raise Red Flags Among Experts And Ethnic-Minority Activists". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  15. ^
    PMID 30241495
    .
  16. PMID 31036896
    .
  17. ^ Журналист Иван Голунов стал обладателем зайца в Карелии и признался, что он вепс

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