Editing Ingrian language (section)

===Origin===

Ingrian is classified, together with [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Karelian language|Karelian]] (including [[Livvi]]), [[Ludic language|Ludic]] and [[Veps language|Veps]], in the [[Northern Finnic languages|Northern Finnic branch]] of the [[Uralic languages]].

The exact origin of [[Izhorians]], and by extension the Ingrian language, is not fully clear.<ref name=Konkova>{{Cite book|title=Ижора: Очерки истории и культуры|last=Konkova|first=Olga I.|isbn=978-5-94348-049-2|series=Коренные народы Ленинградской Области|language=ru|year=2009|location=St. Petersburg}}</ref> Most scholars agree that Ingrian is most closely related to the Karelian language and the [[Eastern Finnish dialects|Eastern dialects of Finnish]], although the exact nature of this relationship is unclear:

A popular opinion holds that the split of the Karelian and Ingrian languages can be traced back to around the 8th-12th centuries A.D., with the Ingrian language originating from a Pre-Karelian group travelling westward along the [[Neva river]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Происхождение карельского народа|last=Bubrikh|first=Dmitry V.|year=1947|page=32|publisher=Государственное издание Карело-Финской ССР|location=Petrozavodsk|language=ru}}</ref><ref name=Laanest1978>{{Cite book|title=Isuri keele ajalooline foneetika ja morfoloogia|last=Laanest|first=Arvo|year=1978|location=Tallinn|page=3}}</ref>