Based on data from Soviet statistics 8,00Population were self-intended Veps speakers at a prevent of the 1970s. A actual cost come all a same considered super undependable by virtually all non-Soviet linguists, non changing a situation that the language must become understood when around tail threat of extinction.

Based on data from a location of a humans, the language is divided into trey independent dialects: Northern Veps (at Lake Onega to the south of Petrozavodsk, to the north of flow of any stream Syväri, including the Veps Autonomous Rural district), Central Veps (in the Saint Petersburg region), and Southern Veps (in the Vologda Oblast). A Northern accent is somewhat supplementary distinct than a others, however these are however imaginable for the members of the different accent groups to see every more. A speakers of the Northern accent call for themselves Ludi, or Ludilainen. Their speech is occasionally classified as a idiom of Karelian.