Komi language

Komi
Коми кыв
Spoken in
Region	Komi Republic, Perm Krai (Komi-Permyak Okrug, Krasnovishersky Raion)
Total speakers	293,000 (Komi-Zyrian, census 2002), 94,300 (Komi-Permyak, census 2002)
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-Permic Permic Komi
Writing system	Cyrillic alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Komi
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1	kv
ISO 639-2	kom
ISO 639-3	either: koi – Komi-Permyak kpv – Komi-Zyrian
Linguasphere
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The Komi language (in Komi: коми кыв, transliteration: komi kyv [komi kɨv]) is a Finno-Permic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi is one of the two members of the Permic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric branch. The other Permic language is Udmurt, to which Komi is closely related.

Of the several dialects found within Komi, two major dialects are recognized, although the differences are not great: Komi-Zyrian, the largest group, serves as the literary basis within the Komi Republic; and Komi-Yazva, 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.

Notes

Bibliography

• Bartens, Raija (2000) (in Finnish). Permiläisten kielten rakenne ja kehitys. 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

• 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