Ludiann.

1921 M. Stenbäck in T. Homén East Carelia & Kola Lapmark ii. ii. 122 Among the Onega Wepsians... Those who speak Wepsian are said to speak l'üdikš.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 68 The other languages of the Baltic branch [of the Finnish-Lapponic languages], Carelian, Olonetsian, Ludian, Vepsian, Livonian, Ingrian, and Votian, are far smaller, and some of them are near extinction.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 369 The languages of the Uralic family are as follows: (1) Finnish group: Finnish proper.., Karelian.., Olonetzian, Ingrian, Lüdish, Vepsian, [etc.].

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 127 Ludian, a dialect (also called Lüdish) of the Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric (or Uralic) sub-family of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.

1955 B. Collinder Fenno-Ugric Vocab. p. ix Lude.., spoken in the region west of lake Onega, is a kind of intermediary between Olonets and Veps.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 200/2 Lüd, spoken to the north and west of Petrozavodsk.

1967 D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 81 Ludian 10 th[ousand] speakers in region of Olonets (north east of Leningrad on shore of Lake Ladoga) of a series of patois, basically northern Vepsian but with influences of Carelian, and forming a transition between the two. Impregnated with Finnish and Russian.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia V. 709/3 Ludic, a minor group of dialects spoken to the south of Karelian, is considered to be a blend of Karelian and Veps.