Permic languages

E75033

branch of Uralic languages language group

Permic languages are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken primarily in the Ural region of Russia, including languages such as Udmurt and Komi.

Aliases (2)

Komi-Permyak language ×1
Komi-Zyrian language ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Uralic languages → language group →
ancestor	Proto-Permic language →
arealGrouping	European Russia →
areEndangered	some member languages →
contactWith	Mari language → Tatar language → Turkic languages →
documentationStatus	well-documented compared to some other Uralic branches →
geneticClassification	Finno-Ugric branch →
grammaticalCategory	derivational suffixes for valency change → extensive case marking →
hasPart	Komi language → Komi-Permyak language → Komi-Zyrian language → Old Permic language → Udmurt language →
hasSubgroup	Komi languages → Udmurt language →
historicalDevelopment	diverged from Proto-Permic →
historicalWritingSystem	Old Permic script →
influencedBy	Russian language →
ISO639FamilyCode	fiu →
languageFamily	Uralic →
lexicalSimilarityWith	Finnic languages (moderate) → Mari language (regional loans) →
neighboringLanguageGroup	Komi-Permyak language area → Mari language → Volga-Finnic languages →
partOf	Uralic language family →
phonologicalFeature	palatalization contrasts → vowel reduction in unstressed syllables →
recognizedMinorityLanguagesIn	Russian Federation →
reconstructedFrom	comparative method in Uralic linguistics →
spokenIn	Komi Republic → Perm Krai → Russia → Udmurt Republic → Ural region →
studiedBy	Uralic linguists →
subclassOf	Uralic languages →
typologicalFeature	SOV word order tendency → agglutinative morphology → postpositions → rich case system → vowel harmony (relic or reduced) →
usedFor	regional communication in Ural region →
writingSystem	Cyrillic script →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Finno-Ugric languages → Uralic languages ("Komi-Zyrian language") → Uralic languages ("Komi-Permyak language") →	hasMember
Finnic languages →	relatedTo
Ugric languages →	sharesCommonAncestorWith