[4][1] It has its own literary standard[5] and efforts have been undertaken to seek official recognition as an indigenous regional language of Estonia.

[6][7] Võro has roughly 75,000[8] speakers (Võros), mostly in southeastern Estonia, in the eight parishes of the historical Võru County: Karula, Harglõ, Urvastõ, Rõugõ, Kanepi, Põlva, Räpinä and Vahtsõliina.

[13] Today, Võro is used in the works of some of Estonia's best-known playwrights, poets, and authors (Madis Kõiv, Ülle Kauksi, Jaan Kaplinski, Ain Kaalep, etc.).

Twenty six public schools offer weekly special classes (mostly extracurricular) in modern Võro.

The letter q stands for the glottal stop /ʔ/ and y denotes /ɨ/, a vowel very close to Russian ы (from 2005 written õ).

In proper typography and in handwriting, the palatalization mark does not extend above the cap height (except uppercase letters Ń, Ŕ, Ś, V́ etc.

Some examples, with Estonian and Finnish included for comparison: All Võro consonants (except /j/ and /ʔ/) can be palatalized.