Today, the Ingrian dialects are still spoken in Russia, Finland and Sweden.

However the Finnish language stayed because of the Lutheran church; the difference of religion made mixed marriages rare.

At first, minority languages were supported; however, around 1930 Finnish was banned and the Ingrian Finns were deported and genocided.

One process present in the dialects is the deletion of final front vowels and their replacement by palatisation, much like in Ala-Laukaa Ingrian and Votic:[4] Another is the diphthongisation of historically long vowels in initial syllables, much like in the Karelian language:[4] Like in the Ingrian language, Standard Finnish morphological -d- is often replaced by -v-, -vv- and -ij-:[4] Finally, a shift of the diphthongs [ie̯], [uo̯] and [yø̯] to [iɑ̯] ([iæ̯] in front-vocalic stems), [uɑ̯] and [yæ̯] respectively is present:[6] The dialects' personal pronouns differ significantly from the standard language.

In more recent years, it has also borrowed extensively from the Russian language:[4] Follows a sample text in Ingrian Finnish:[6]