page_title: Udmurt language
section_title: Grammar
hierarchical_section_title: Udmurt language / Grammar
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Удмуртский ru:букварь 1898 г. («Букварь для вотскихъ дѣтей») Ирон: Вотякаг (удмуртаг) абетæ, Хъазаны 1898-æм азы рауагъд English: en:Udmurt language textbook Букварь для вотскихъ дѣтей
context_page_description: Udmurt is a Uralic language, part of the Permic subgroup, spoken by the Udmurt natives of the Russian constituent republic of Udmurtia, where it is co-official with Russian. It is written using the Cyrillic alphabet with the addition of five characters not used in the Russian orthography: Ӝ/ӝ, Ӟ/ӟ, Ӥ/ӥ, Ӧ/ӧ, and Ӵ/ӵ. Together with Komi and Komi-Permyak languages, it constitutes the Permic grouping of the Uralic family. Among outsiders, it has traditionally been referred to by its Russian exonym, Votyak. Udmurt has borrowed vocabulary from neighboring languages Tatar and Russian.
  Ethnologue estimates 550,000 native speakers in an ethnic population of 750,000 in the former USSR.
context_section_description: Udmurt is an agglutinating language. It uses affixes to express possession, to specify mode, time, and so on.
  No gender distinction is made in nouns or in personal pronouns
caption: Udmurt language textbook, 1898 (in Russian) Букварь для вотскихъ дѣтей
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