Võro Institute development plan 2024-2028

19 April, 2024


Conference

11 October, 2023

Invitation to the conference „Looks like museum, acts like gymnasium” October 11, 2024 Location: Karilatsi Open-Air Museum (Karilatsi, Kanepi Parish, Põlva County)   The autumn scientific conference of the Võru Institute focuses on museums and museum education. At the conference, answers are sought to the questions of how the local museum could best serve its […]


Konvõrentsi kava

11 October, 2023

    Konvõrents Põlidsõq ja rändäjäq, olõjaq ja tulõjaq, läbikäümine ja mõotusõq Võro, Võro Instituut 27.–28. rehekuu 2023   Võro instituudi kõrralinõ õdagumeresoomõ süküskonvõrents sääd kaemisõ keskpunkti rändämise. Tähelepandmisõ all ommaq nii õdagumeresoomõ väikuq rahvaq ku ka tõsõq põlidsõq rahvaq ja põliskiili kogokonnaq ümbre Õdagumere ja kavvõmbal.   Riidi, 27. okt 9.00–9.30 osavõtjidõ kirjapandminõ, alostaminõ […]


Conference

20 June, 2023

Conference Natives and Migrants, Residents and Settlers, Relationships and Influences Võru, Võru Institute. October 27th–28th, 2023   This year, the traditional Võru Institute’s autumn conference explores the topic of migration. The focus is primarily on the nations and ethnicities of Finnic speakers, as well as other indigenous peoples and indigenous language communities around the Baltic […]


PROGRAM (See abstracts linked to presenters!)

4 October, 2018

Riidi/Reede/Friday, 19.10.2018 12.00-12.30 Lõunasüük/lõunasöök/lunch kohvik Taevas (Katariina allee 6, Võru) Vallalõtegemine/Avasõnad/Welcome by Rainer Kuuba (Võro instituut) 13.00–13.45 Ragne Kõuts-Klemm (Tartu ülikool): Meedia roll keelerikkuse hoidjana 13.45–14.15 Outi Tánczos (Helsingin yliopisto): Vähemmistökielen kuva omakielisessä mediassa 14.15–14.45 Sanita Lazdina (Rezekne Academy of Technologies), Heiko F. Marten (DAAD Information Centre Riga): Facebook practices as a reflection of Language […]


Traveller’s Guide

31 July, 2018

Vana-Võromaa Traveller’s Guide in English and Finnish. Vana-Võromaa Traveller’s Guide in Latvian and Russian.


Museums

27 February, 2017

Southern Estonia and Vana-Võromaa Locations of museums.   Mõniste Rural Life Museum     Vana-Võromaa Museum and Art Gallery       Dr. Fr. R. Kreutzwald Memorial Museum       Karilatsi Open Air Museum       See also:    Traveller’s Guide on the Vana-Võromaa region In English and Finnish In Latvian and Russian […]


Võro synthetic voice

7 April, 2016

The first Võro synthetic voices are available at: http://www.eki.ee/~indrek/voru/index.php Võro speech synthesizer is made by the Institute of Estonian Language and Võro Institute. See: https://github.com/ikiissel/synthts_vr Comments: sulev.iva@wi.ee


About Us

15 February, 2016

The establishment of the Võro Institute was first suggested by the active advocates of the Võro movement, which emerged in the late 1980s. By the mid-1990s it was clear that the movement required state support to be viable and could not be sustained exclusively on a voluntary basis. The Võro Institute was established by the […]


Võro Language

15 February, 2016

Võro language   By Evar Saar Linguistically, the Võro language is the central part of the South Estonian language. It has often been called the Ugandi language because the language was spread over the territory of old county of Ugandi up to 1220s (and further). South Estonian was one of seven Balto-Finnic ancient dialects (Western […]