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The Komi language, also known as '''Zyrian''', or '''Komi-Zyrian''', is a language spoken by the Komi Peoples in the northeastern Europe an part of Russia . Komi belongs to the Finno-Permic group of the Finno-Ugric Languages .

Of the several dialects found within Komi, two major dialects are recognized, although the differences are not great: Komi-Zyrian , the largest group, which serves as the literary basis within the Komi Republic ; and Komi-Yazva, spoken by a small, isolated group of Komi to the east of Perm Krai and south of the Komi Republic. Permyak (also called Komi-Permyak) is spoken in Komi-Permyak, where it has literary status.

Komi language has a very interesting history of writing, unusual among Finnic languages. 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 . Stephen later became a Komi saint. 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 it uses the Russian alphabet plus the additional letters ''І, і'' and ''Ӧ, ӧ''.

Some letters Particular to the Molodtsov Alphabet:


EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Information about the Komi language: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~bergmann/russia/languages/komi.htm

  • 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/