Ain Saar (1968) is a Võro punk rocker, and freedom fighter, the leader of the group Vaba-Sõltumatu Noorte Kolonn Nr.1 (Free Independent Youth Column No. 1) of December 20, 1987, which struggled against the Soviet rule.
Addition Adson was one of the most outstanding poets in the Võro dialect of southern Estonia.
Palatalization is a part of the Estonian literary language and is an essential feature in Võro, as well as Veps, Karelian and other eastern Finnic languages.
He was also a writer of children's stories, which were written in a Võro dialect from southern Estonia.
In using the Latin alphabet for Uralic languages, palatalization is typically denoted with an acute accent, as in Võro ⟨ś⟩; an apostrophe, as in Karelian ⟨s’⟩; or digraphs in j, as in the Savo dialect of Finnish, ⟨sj⟩.
This prayer has been used by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis in his 1974 choral work Litany to Thunder (text rendered into the Võro dialect of contemporary Southern Estonian and developed by the writer Ain Kaalep).
Võro language, a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonia
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The centre coordinates and organizes linguistic and cultural studies in the historical South Estonian (Võro, Seto, Mulgi and Tartu) area.
In addition to Võro, other contemporary variants of South Estonian include the Mulgi, Tartu and Seto language or dialect.