Komi language

The Komi language (, komi kyv), also known as Zyryan, Zyrian or Komi-Zyryan (Komi: коми-зырян кыв, komi-zyrjan kyv),Komi language Britannica. 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: , 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.

 References 

 Bibliography 


 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. .

 Other websites 



 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

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