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Metaphors of language: the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
At present Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority in north-western Russia, live in three different administrative regions, i.e., the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts.
Laura Siragusa
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Prose miniatures as an experience of self-identification (author's mini-texts in the Vepsian language) [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Prose miniatures of Alexander Ulyanov are analyzed not only as a way of self-expression of the author's ego, but also as an experience of self-identification, awareness of their place in the social world order and historical time.
Ivanova Galina
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Secrecy and Sustainability: How Concealment and Revelation Shape Vepsian Language Revival [PDF]

Anthropologica, 1969
In this article, I explore questions related to language sustainability, examining whether secrecy practices, both in written and oral form, support or hinder language revival. Within cultural anthropology, secrecy often reflects “epistemological and ethical dimensions” of the researcher and research institutions.
Siragusa, Laura
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Virantanaz – an epic in Vepsian? About the first attempt at an epic [PDF]

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
The paper is a brief account of the events of the past 20 years, which have been essential for the fate of the Veps, and brought the author, who found herself in the very heart of the processes of Vepsian language and culture revival, to the idea of ...
Nina Zaitseva
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A Finnic holy word and its subsequent history [PDF]

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
This article concentrates on a specific ancient holy word in Finnish and its subsequent development, hiisi. In the Finnish language region hiisi appears as an element in place names in over 230 villages established by the end of the thirteenth century ...
Mauno Koski
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“Let You Have Nine Sons and One Daughter”: Naming a Young Man and a Girl in the Veps Ethnolinguistic Space [PDF]

Научный диалог, 2020
The results of a comparative analysis of the vocabulary of a thematic group of Vepsian-speaking naming concepts of “boy” and “girl” are presented in the article.
N. G. Zaitseva, O. Yu. Zhukova
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Magic of Words: Lexemes with Semantics ‘Spell’ and ‘to Spell’ in Vepsian (Etymological-Semantic and Linguo-Geographical Aspects) [PDF]

Научный диалог, 2022
A comparative analysis of the Veps language lexemes with the semantics ‘spell’ (puheg, puitoomine), as well as verbs with the meaning ‘to spell; pronounce incantations.
O. Yu. Zhukova, N. G. Zaitseva
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A Comprehensive Study on the Onomastics of the South-Eastern Lake Onega Area. Review of: Sobolev, A. I. Russian Onomastics of Finno-Ugric Origin in the South-Eastern Obonezhye: Experience in the Reconstruction of Linguistic Interaction (Doctoral dissertation). Institute for Linguistic Studies of the RAS, St Petersburg, 2024. 446 p. [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики
This review discusses Anton I. Sobolev’s doctoral thesis Russian Onomastics of Finno-Ugric Origin in the Region of South-Eastern Obonezhye: The Experience of Language Interaction Reconstruction.
Anna Andreevna Bakhtereva
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Vepsian Literature as an Aspiration to the Revival of the People (“Up the Stairs Leading Down”?)

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2021
The article is devoted to the development of the literature of the Vepsians of the early written people of Russia, whose language is included in the Red Book of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia (the number of people in 2010 was 5936 people ...
Nina G. Zaytseva
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Russian Dialects as a Resource for Finniс Historical Lexicology

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021
This article proposes a reconstruction of a number of Vepsian and Ludic Karelian derivatives of lexemes, referring to the dialectal vocabulary of the Russian dialects of Obonezhye region.
Irma Ivanovna Mullonen
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