| Also Known As: Votyak,Votiak,Udmurt
Description:
Udmurt (удмурт кыл, udmurt kyl) is a Finno-Permic language spoken by the Udmurts, natives of the Russian constituent republic of Udmurtia, where it is co-official with the Russian language. It is closely related to the Komi language, together with which it forms the group of Permic languages. It is written in the Cyrillic script with five additional characters. Linguistically, it is most closely related to Komi and Komi-Permyak.
The Udmurt alphabet is based on the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. From top to bottom: letters, their names (in Russian for Ӥ, Й, Ъ and Ь), and their pronunciation in IPA:
Four of these characters (Ӝ/ӝ, Ӟ/ӟ, Ӥ/ӥ, Ӵ/ӵ) are unique to the Udmurt alphabet.
The language does not distinguish between long and short vowels, and does not have vowel harmony.
Udmurt is an agglutinating language. It uses affixes to explain possession, to specify the mode, the time, and so on.
There is no grammatical gender.
Specific noun types have no distinguishable formats; some words even belong to three categories: ӵилкит čilkit means "clean", "cleanness" and "clearly" as well. There are 15 cases in the language. In the singular first, second, and third person, the ordinary possessive..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Udmurt Language Speakers
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54.827049, 55.042319, Russia
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