Komi language
Komi | |
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Коми кыв | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Komi Republic, Perm Krai (Komi-Permyak Okrug, Krasnovishersky Raion) |
Ethnicity | Komis |
Native speakers | 220,000 (2010 census)[1] |
Dialects | |
Cyrillic | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Komi |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | kv |
ISO 639-2 | kom |
ISO 639-3 |
kom – inclusive code Individual codes: koi – Komi-Permyak kpv – Komi-Zyrian |
The Komi language (in Komi: Коми кыв, transliteration: Komi kyv [komi kɨv]) is a Uralic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi may be considered a single language with several dialects, or a group of closely related languages,[2] making up one of the two branches of the Permic branch of the family. The other Permic language is Udmurt, to which Komi is closely related.
Of the several Komi dialects or languages, two major varieties are recognized, closely related to one another: Komi-Zyrian, the largest group, serves as the literary basis within the Komi Republic; and Komi-Yodzyak, spoken by a small, isolated group of Komi to the north-west of Perm Krai and south of the Komi Republic. Permyak (also called Komi-Permyak) is spoken in Komi-Permyak Okrug, where it has literary status.
Writing system
The first writing system, the Old Permic script, was invented in the 14th century by the missionary Stepan Khrap, apparently of a Komi mother in Veliky Ustyug. The alphabet shows some similarity to medieval Greek and Cyrillic. In the 16th century this alphabet was replaced by the Russian alphabet with certain modifications for affricates. In the 1920s, the language was written in Molodtsov alphabet, also derived from Cyrillic. In the 1930s it was switched to Latin. Since the 1940s the Komi alphabet uses the Russian letters plus the additional letters І, і and Ӧ, ӧ.
Letters particular to the Molodtsov alphabet include ԁ, ԃ, ԅ, ԇ, ԉ, ԋ, ԍ, ԏ, most of which represent palatalized consonants.
А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ԁ ԁ | Ԃ ԃ | Е е | Ж ж | Җ җ | З з | Ԅ ԅ |
Ԇ ԇ | І і | Ј ј | К к | Л л | Ԉ ԉ | М м | Н н | Ԋ ԋ | О о | Ӧ ӧ |
П п | Р р | С с | Ԍ ԍ | Т т | Ԏ ԏ | У у | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ы ы |
In addition, the letters Ф ф, Х х, and Ц ц might be used for words borrowed from Russian.
Grammar
- For a closer presentation, see Komi grammar
Komi has seven vowels, upper i, ɨ, u, mid e, ɘ, o and low a. It has 17 cases, with a rich inventory of local cases. Like other Uralic languages, Komi has no gender. Verbs agree with subjects in person and number (sg/pl). Negation is expressed with an auxiliary verb, which is inflected for person, number and tense.
Komi is an agglutinative language and adheres to a subject–object–verb order.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Komi reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Komi-Permyak reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Komi-Zyrian reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) - ↑ Saunders, Robert A.; Strukov, Vlad (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. Scarecrow Press. p. 724. ISBN 9780810854758.
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Bibliography
- Bartens, Raija (2000). Permiläisten kielten rakenne ja kehitys (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. ISBN 952-5150-55-0.
- 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.
External links
Komi-Zyrian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Komi-Permyak edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- 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): http://library.finugor.ru/
- Komi-Russian dictionary
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