Komi language

Komi language
Komi language
коми кыв; komi kyv
Native to	Russia
Region	Komi Republic, Nenetsia, Permyakia, Yamalia, Yugra, elsewhere in Russia
Native speakers	160,000 (2010 census)e18
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric Permic Komi language; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic, Old Permic Script (Formerly)
Official status
Official language in	Russia Komi Republic;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	kv
ISO 639-3	kpv
	Komi is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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The Komi language (Komi: коми кывcode: kv is deprecated , komi kyv), also known as Zyryan, Zyrian or Komi-Zyryan (Komi: коми-зырян кыв, komi-zyrjan kyv),^[1] is one of the two types of the Komi language. The other type is Permyak.

Speakers

Komi is spoken by the Komi peoples native to the Komi Republic and other parts of Russia such as Nenetsia and Yamalia. There were 285,000 speakers in 1994. This went down to 160,000 in 2010.

Writings

It was written in the Old Permic alphabet (Komi: 𐍐𐍝𐍑𐍣𐍒, Анбур, Anbur) in the 14th century. The Cyrillic script was introduced by Russian missionaries in the 17th century. This script replaced the Old Permic script.

Komi Language Media

Areas that speak the komi language.
A sample of the Komi language words. Upper "Улица Коммунистическая" is in Russian, lower "Коммунистическӧй улича" is in Komi. Both mean "Communist street". This picture was taken in Syktyvkar, the capital of Komi Republic
Trilingual (Russian, Komi, and English) sign in a hotel in Ukhta, Komi Republic

References

↑ Komi language Britannica.

Bibliography

Bartens, Raija (2000). Permiläisten kielten rakenne ja kehitys (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. ISBN 952-5150-55-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
Abondolo, Daniel (2015). The Uralic Languages. Routledge
R. M. Batalova. 1993. Komi(-Zyryanskij) Jazyk. In V. N. Jartseva (ed.), Jazyki Mira: Ural'skie Jazyki, 214–229. Moskva: Nauka.
Fed'un'ova, G.V. Önija komi kyv ('The Modern Komi Language'). Morfologia/Das’töma filologijasa kandidat G.V.Fed'un'ova kipod ulyn. Syktyvkar: Komi n’ebög ledzanin, 2000. 544 pp. ISBN 5-7555-0689-2.

Other websites

Media related to Komi language at Wikimedia Commons

This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Komi language edition.

Books in Komi-Zyrian from Finno-Ugric Electronic Library (by the Finno-Ugric Information Center in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (interface in Russian and English, texts in Mari, Komi, Udmurt, Erzya and Moksha languages))
Komi–Russian & Russian–Komi Online Dictionaries
Tarabukin I.I. Komi–Russian Phraseological Dictionary.
Komi Grammar. (in Russian)
Komi-language courses

[britannica-1] Komi language Britannica.

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