# Votian/Dialect classification
## Votian dialects
### Classification

* Votic
** Eastern Votic dialect
*** Kabrio dialect (Russian: Копорья)
*** Itšäpäivä - Kozlova dialect
**** Kozlova dialect (Russian: Козлово)
**** Iivanaisi dialect (Russian: Ивановское)
**** Mahu dialect (Russian: Подмошье)
**** Kliimettina dialect (Russian: Климетино)
**** Itšäpäivä dialect (Russian: Ицепино)
** Western Votic dialects
*** Hill dialect:
**** Kõrstõva ~ Kerstova dialect (Russian: Керстово)
**** Tšitširitsa ~ Kikeritsa dialect (Russian: Кикерицы)
**** Pihlaala dialect (Russian: Пиллово)
**** Rudja dialect (Russian: Рудилово)
**** Rannala dialect (Russian: Раннолово)
**** Lempola dialect (Russian: Лемполово)
**** Pummala dialect (Russian: Пумалица)
**** Kattila dialect (Russian: Котлы)
**** Untovõõ ~ Undova dialect (Russian: Ундово)
*** Valley dialect:
**** Jarvikoištšülä dialect (Russian: Бабино)
**** Savvokkala dialect (Russian: Савикино)
**** Mati dialect (Russian: Маттия)
**** Kõrvõttula dialect (Russian: Корвитино)
**** Mataucio dialect (Russian: Матовка)
**** Veertävä dialect (Russian: Вердия)
**** Muukkova dialect (Russian: Мукково)
*** Pontizõõ - Velikkä dialect
**** Velikkä dialect (Russian: Великино)
**** Pontizõõ dialect (Russian: Понтилово)
**** Valkovitsa dialect (Russian: Валговицы)
**** Koskolova dialect (Russian: Косколово)
**** Kahcizõõ dialect (Russian: Березняки)
*** Vaipooli dialect:
**** Luuditsa - Liivtšülä dialect
***** Rüsümätši dialect (Russian: Верхние Лужицы, Finnish: Risumäki)
***** Luutsa ~ Luuditsa dialect (Russian: Лужицы)
***** Liivtšülä dialect (Russian: Пески)
**** Jõgõperä - Rajo dialect
***** Jõgõperä dialect (Russian: Кроколье)
***** Rajo dialect (Russian: Межники)
***** Narvuzi dialect (Russian: Куземкино)
** Kreevin dialect (Latvian: Kreeviš ~ Krievinsh ('a Russian'), hence Russian: кревинг) dialect was still alive in 1846 near Bauska (German: Marienland or Bauske) in Latvian Zemgale, noted by the academician A. Sjögren. In the 1440s the knight Heidenreich Vinke von Overberg deported Votic war prisoners - their ancestors to Courland.
* Kukkuzi dialect (Russian: Куровицы) dialect is traditionally classified as Votic under strong Ingrian influence, but T-R. Viitsoo opposed this claim as a linguistic nonsense. We might talk about Votic substratum here instead and also in other Ingrian dialects of lower Laugaz valley (Russian: Усть-Луга): Kotko (Орлы), Mannakka (Манновка), Teesuu (Извоз), Haavikko (Кейкино) etc. and less obviously in surroundings of river Rosona (Russian: Росона)..
Following dialects of Estonia share distinctive features with Votic and might have been originally closer to Votic than to Estonian dialects.:
* Alutaguse dialects: The most characteristic of which was the speech of Lüganuse parish.
** Lüganuse dialect
** Jõhvi dialect
** Northern and central Iisaku dialect
** Western and central Vaivara dialect
* Vaiga or East-Estonian dialects: The most characteristic of which was the speech of Kodavere and north-eastern Maarja-Magdaleena parishes..
** nucleus: (central and northern Kodavere, north-eastern Maarja-Magdaleena)
** northern: (northern Torma and Avinurme, north-eastern corner of Laiuse, south-western Iisaku - espescially Tudulinna area)
** central: (the rest of Torma, eastern Laiuse, eastern Palamuse, central Maarja-Magdaleena)
** southern: (Äksi, southern Maarja-Magdaleena)
Votic substratum is found also in Finnish dialects of Western-Ingria e.g. Lutheran parts of Kattila (Russian: Котлы) and Novoselkka, Kurgolovo (Russian: Курголово) - Suakyla (Russian: Дубровка). There are some remarques about extinct Finnic dialect of Gdov (Russian: Гдов) area - Dobrychinskaya (Russian: Добручинская) municipality.
(The distribution of Votic villages in this classification needs further confirmation.)