Komi-Permyak language
| Komi-Permyak | |
|---|---|
| Перем коми кыв | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Komi-Permyak Okrug |
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Native speakers
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63,000 (2010 census) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | komi1269 |
Komi-Permyak language (перем коми кыв /ˈperem ˈkomi kɨv/ or коми-пермяцкӧй кыв /ˈkomi perˈmʲackəj kɨv/) is one of two regional varieties of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian.
Komi is a Uralic language closely related to Udmurt.
The Komi-Permyak language, spoken in Perm Krai of Russia and written using the Komi Cyrillic alphabet, was co-official with Russian in the Komi Okrug of the Perm Krai.
The original name of the Komi-Permyak language is коми кыв "Komi language", identical with the native name of the Komi-Zyrian language.
In the 1920s, the soviet authorities introduced the new name for the Komi language in Perm Region as коми-пермяцкий язык, combining the native name of the language with the Russian one. The new name was transliterated in Komi as коми-пермяцкöй кыв 'Komi-Permyak language'. In so way the local language was nominally separated from the Komi-Zyrian language, that officially received the original name коми кыв. The Komis of Region Perm had to officially use the new name, even though it has abusive connotations for the speakers, continuing in their colloquial speech to use exclusively the original name of their language as коми кыв.
All the Komi-Permyak dialects are easily intelligible with one another and to some extent with the Komi-Zyrian dialects.
The Komi-Permyak dialects might be divided both geographically into Northern and Southern groups and phonemically into /l/ and /v/ groups:
1. Northern
2. Southern
Earlier there was a southern group too, in the Obva river basin, but now it is fast entirely extinct. Its only remain, the Nerdva dialect, is regarded usually together with the central group, which in so way became "southern".
The central (new southern) and northern groups of Komi-Permyak are spoken in Komi Okrug of Perm Krai, where the language was standardized in the 1920s. The modern standard is based on Kudymkar dialect of the central group, but many elements of northern dialects were included too, so that the "literary language" has significant differences in its morphological system from the "main" dialect.
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