Editing Võro language (section)

==History==

Võro is a descendant of the old [[South Estonian]] regional language and is the least influenced by Standard Estonian (which is based on Northern Estonian dialects).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:308890?SID=76572&actPage=2&type=listview&sortfield=fgs.createdDate,STRING&sortreverse=0 |last=Koreinik |first=Kadri |title=Võro kiil|publisher=Studies in European Language Diversity 23.2 |date=2013 |access-date=2015-12-09}}</ref> Võro was once spoken further south and east of historical Võromaa in South Estonian-speaking enclaves [[Lutsi (Ludza)]], [[Leivu]] and [[Kraasna]] in what is now [[Latvia]] and [[Russia]]. In addition to Võro, other contemporary South Estonian languages are [[Mulgi dialect|Mulgi]], [[Tartu dialect|Tartu]] and [[Seto dialect|Seto]].

One of the earliest written evidences of South Estonian is a translation of the [[New Testament]] (''Wastne Testament'') published in 1686. Although the status of South Estonian began to diminish after the 1880s, the language began to undergo a revival in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:308888?SID=76572&actPage=1&type=listview&sortfield=fgs.createdDate,STRING&sortreverse=0 |last=Koreinik |first=Kadri |title=The Võro language in Estonia: ELDIA Case-Specific Report |publisher=Studies in European Language Diversity 23 |date=2013 |access-date=2015-12-09}}</ref>