Editing Vots (section)

{{Short description|Finnic ethnic group in Ingria, modern Russia}}
{{Redirect|Vote people|other uses|Vote (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Vots<br/>vađđalaizõd
| flag             = Votic Flag.svg
| flag_caption     = Votic flag
| population       = 99+
| regions          = 
| languages        = [[Votic language|Votic]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Ingrian language|Ingrian]], [[Estonian language|Estonian]]
| region1          = {{flag|Russia}}
| pop1             = 99 <small>(2020)</small>
| ref1             = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения.|trans-title=Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 1. National composition of the population. |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=rosstat.gov.ru}}</ref>
| region2          = {{flag|Estonia}}
| pop2             = 4 <small>(2011)</small>
| ref2             = <ref>[http://pub.stat.ee/px-web.2001/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=RL0428&ti=RAHVASTIK+RAHVUSE%2C+SOO+JA+ELUKOHA+J%C4RGI%2C+31%2E+DETSEMBER+2011&path=../Database/Rahvaloendus/REL2011/07Rahvastiku_demograafilised_ja_etno_kultuurilised_naitajad/08Rahvus_Emakeel_ja_keelteoskus_Murded/&lang=2 RL0428: Rahvastik rahvuse, soo ja elukoha järgi, 31. detsember 2011]</ref>
| religions        = [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]]<br>[[Lutheran]]<br>[[Poluverniki]]
| related          = Other [[Baltic Finns]]<br/>Especially [[Estonians]], [[Livonians]], [[Setos]], and [[Võros]]
}}

[[File:Votic_people.svg|thumb|Alternative flag]]
'''Vots''', also referred to as '''Votes''', '''Vods''' and '''Votians''' ({{langx|vot|ва́ддялайзыд}}, ''vađđalaizõd''; {{langx|ru|водь}}; {{langx|et|vadjalased}}; {{langx|fi|vatjalaiset}}) are a [[Baltic Finns|Finnic ethnic group]] native to historical [[Ingria]], the part of modern-day northwestern [[Russia]] that is roughly southwest of [[Saint Petersburg]] and east of the [[Estonia]]n border-town of [[Narva]]. The [[Finnic languages|Finnic]] [[Votic language]] spoken by Vots is close to [[Language death|extinction]]. The language is still spoken in three villages of historical Votia and by an unknown number of speakers in the countryside.  The villages are ''[[Jõgõperä]]'' (Krakolye), ''Liivcülä'' (Peski), and ''Luuditsa'' (Luzhitsy).<ref name="ERM">[http://www.erm.ee/?lang=EST&node=648&parent=83 Eesti Rahva Muuseum: Vadjalased] {{in lang|et}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20081225143350/http://www.erm.ee/?lang=EST&node=648&parent=83 Archived])</ref> In the Russian 2020 census, 99 people identified as Votian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения.|trans-title=Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 1. National composition of the population. |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=rosstat.gov.ru}}</ref>

Vots were one of the founding people of [[Veliky Novgorod]].