Alternate Names: Voro, Võro-Seto, Voru, Võru
Dialects: Eastern Võro, Seto, Western Võro. Seto is linguisticaly very close to Eastern Võro but many Setos consider Seto an independent language. There are about 5,000 Seto speakers. A member of macrolanguage Estonian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 60,000 (2009 S. Iva).
Language Use: Rapid shift to Standard Estonian [ekk]. Promotion and revival of Võro, which includes teachers, politicians, poets, geographers, and administrators, attempting to increase the usage. Home, workplace. Few children; most are elderly speakers living in rural areas.
Language Development: Taught in primary schools. Newspapers. Radio programs. TV. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1686–1905.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Estonia
Other Comments: Christian.