Talk:Võro language

message: Hi! It would be great if somebody will translate the article ´Võro language´ to his own language and add to his language Wikipedia. I mean especially our neighbours: finns (hei suomalaiset suomentakaa se artikkeli lähisukukielestänne!!) latvians (labdien!), swedes, russians! -Võrolang 10:24, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The edition from 20. January is made by me. --Võrolang 16:43, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Translate

message: I removed the "proposed" language codes from the infobox, because the language is currently covered by already-existing codes, which should be there for those who need the refererence.  Ethnologue explicitly states "Vôru" to be a dialect of Estonian, so I couldn't do anything about that, but I was charitable and used the ISO code "fiu" (Finno-Ugric, other) instead of "et/est" (Estonian).  The proposed Võro-specific language codes can be added back later if and after ISO or Ethnologue officially accept them.  —Muke Tever 20:58, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You do realize that what Ethnologue says is not sacred chapter and verse, and just because they say something does not make it fact in and of itself.  Of course, then, much of the criticism of Ethnologue has been on their being apparently too willing to declare things as independent languages than the opposite, but even still, that alone does question the idea of Ethnologue's judgements being fixed truths unto themselves. -Travis 8:10, 16 Apr 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ISO_639-3 code for Võro is now vro, ISO_639-2 stays obviously fiu and ISO_639-1 et, as the macrolanguage code both for (Standard) Estonian and Võro.--Võrok (talk) 22:27, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there an Estonian Language Institute statement to that effect? ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 14:27, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  language codes 

message: * jah / jaa - yes 
* ei - no 
* ma olõ - I am
* maq, saq, tä - I, you, he/she 
* miiq, tiiq, nääq - we, you, they
* seo - this, it
* taa / tuu - that, it
* muidoki - of course
* Üts silmäpilk - One moment!
* Mul om - I have
* Sul om - You have
* Kas sul om?  - do you have?
 
* üts, kats, kolm - one, two, three 
* neli, viis, kuus - four, five, six
* säidse, katõsa - seven, eight
* ütesä, kümme - nine, ten
* sada, tuhat, mill'on - hundred, thousand, million 
* vabandust / pallõ andis - sorry or excuse me
* vesi - water
* oluq - beer
* Eesti - Estonia
* Võromaa - Võro area
* võro kiil - Võro language
* võrokõnõ - Võro (person)
* eestläne - Estonian (person)
* saa-i arvo - I don't understand
* saa arvo - (I) understand
* Kas võro kiilt mõistat? - Do you understand Võro?
* Kas inglüse kiilt kõnõlõt? - Do you speak English?
* Ma olõ ingläne / ameeriklanõ / kanadalanõ / austraallanõ / vahtsõmeremaalanõ / iirläne / sotlanõ - I am English / American / Canadian / Australian / New Zealander / Irish / Scottish
* Kas ti olõt ingläne? - Are you English?
* Kon sa elät / kon ti elät? - Where do you live?
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This needs to be transwikied to Wiktionary, if at all possible/necessary. ALTON .ıl 21:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be still useful to have at least some most important of them also in the article, as it appears in the article about Finnish. I will add a shortened list.--Võrok (talk) 10:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Important words

message: I don't know if it is noteworthy enough to be mentioned in the article, but many of the words in the comparison between Standard Estonian and Võro are strikingly similar to their counterparts in standard Finnish.  I'm offering this augmented table for possible inclusion (copy/pasted from the article; added a column for Finnish).
Estonian	Võro     	Estonian (dialectal) literary word	Finnish      	Meaning
punane  	verrev   	verev                             	(punainen)   	red
soe     	lämmi    	lämmi, lämbe                      	lämmin       	warm
jahe    	oigõ     	-                                 	(haalea)     	cool, chilly
õde     	sõsar    	sõsar- (in compound words)        	sisar        	sister
uus     	vahtsõnõ 	vastne                            	(uusi)       	new
koer    	pini     	peni                              	(koira)      	dog
pöial   	päss     	-                                 	(peukalo)    	thumb
pesema  	mõskma   	mõskma                            	(pestä)      	to wash
tänavu  	timahavva	-                                 	(tänä vuonna)	this year
hunt    	susi     	susi                              	susi         	wolf
mäger   	kähr     	-                                 	(mäyrä)      	badger
laupäev 	puulpäiv 	-                                 	(lauantai)   	Saturday
surema  	kuulma   	koolma                            	kuolla       	to die
sõstar  	hõrak    	-                                 	(viinimarja) 	currant
kask    	kõiv     	kõiv                              	koivu        	birch
nutma   	ikma     	itkema                            	itkeä        	to weep
märkama 	rõbahtama	-                                 	(huomata)    	to notice
I'm not familiar with Võro so I don't know how well this generalizes to the vocabulary at large, but it seems from this data that Standard Estonian is the odd one out. -- era (Talk | History) 17:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you Era, it is a good idea! I added the Finnish comparisions to the article.--Võrok (talk) 09:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lexical similarities to Finnish 

message: Is ŋ a phoneme? Where does it occur? CodeCat (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for the extremely late reply (you probably won't even see this, or know at this point), but yes. It is the voiced velar nasal, the sound in the English sing. The sound occurs in too many languages to list here. Glades12 (talk) 18:16, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  That doesn't answer my question at all. I'm talking about the subject of this article, the Võro language. Rua (mew) 20:38, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh. I don't know. Glades12 (talk) 09:08, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  ŋ 

message: The article states that "the vowel y is considered a back vowel for harmony purposes, but does not participate in harmony itself, as it does not occur in suffixes and endings", but the table right above that statement indicates /y/ as a front vowel. Furthermore, the first example right below it shows the word külä. Since ä is a front vowel, vowel harmony should mean that ü /y/ is a front vowel. Am I missing something here, or does that statement need to be corrected?
— Jclu: talk-contribs 15:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I would assume that "the vowel y" refers to /ɨ/. Yuhani (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is /ɨ/, a back vowel.--Võrok (talk) 17:49, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is /y/ a front or back vowel? 

message: The first sentence in Võro is missing the word "free". I don't know how to decline vaba or prii in Võro, but the result should be something like ...sünnüseq [vabbõs? priiõs?] ja ütesugumaidsis avvo ja õiguisi poolõst (altering word order for clarity). Note that this translation also exists on the pages Seto language and South Estonian language. Someone who speaks Võro could take a look. Abc347834 (talk) 13:44, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe user:Võrok can help?--Estopedist1 (talk) 12:14, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! This is a good point. Now it is corrected in all three articles.--Võrok (talk) 17:48, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declaration of human rights