Komi-Yazva language

The Komi-Yazva language (Коми-Ёдз кыл, Komi-Yodz kyl) is spoken mostly in Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai in Russia, in the basin of the Yazva (Yodz) River. It is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Permyak. It has no official status.

Komi-Yodz
Коми-Ёдз кыл
Native toRussia
RegionPerm Krai
Native speakers
(undated figure of 2,000)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologkomi1277
ELPYazva
Yazva Komi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

About two thousand speakers densely live in Krasnovishersky District.

Map of Perm Krai. Komi-Yazva is to the east (in dark blue)

Studies

Availability of the particular vowels together with features of phonetics and stress system led Finnish linguist Arvid Genetz in 1889 to consider Komi-Jazva as a separate dialect. Later, this decision was confirmed by the famous Finno-Ugricist Vasily Lytkin, who studied the Komi-Jazva idiom in depth from 1949 until 1953.

Linguogeography

Area and number

In the early 1960s, about 2,000 speakers lived compactly on the territory of Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai (Antipinskaya, Parshakovskaya, Bychinskaya and Verkh-Yazvinskaya village administrations). In total, there were about 3,000 language-speakers.[1]

Status

The presence of special vowel sounds, specific phonetics and accent system allowed first Finnish linguist Arvid Genetz, who studied the people in 1889, and then the Finno-Ugric philologist Vasily Lytkin, who visited the Komi-Yazvinians three times between 1949 and 1953, to identify the Komi-Yazvinians as a separate dialect.[1] Some researchers consider it to be a dialect of the Komi-Permyak language.[2]

Alphabet

The first Komi-Yazva primer was printed in 2003. Its author was the teacher of the Parshavskaya school A. L. Parshakova. This book also became the first one ever printed in Komi-Yazva language.

А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ё ё Ж ж
З з И и Й й К к Л л М м Н н О о
Ө ө Ӧ ӧ П п Р р С с Т т У у Ӱ ӱ
Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы
Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я

See also

References
  1. Vasily Lytkin (1961). The Komi-Yazvin dialect. Academy of Sciences of the USSR Publishing House.
  2. I︠A︡zyki mira. Uralʹskie i︠a︡zyki. V. N. I︠A︡rt︠s︡eva, I︠U︡. S. Eliseev, K. E. Maĭtinskai︠a︡, O. I. Romanova, Institut i︠a︡zykoznanii︠a︡. Moskva: Nauka. 1993. ISBN 5-02-011069-8. OCLC 28635260.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Bibliography
  • Hausenberg, Annu-Reet (1998). "Komi". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). The Uralic languages. Routledge. pp. 305–326. ISBN 0-415-08198-X.
  • Лыткин В. И., Тепляшина Т. И. Пермские языки // Основы финно-угорского языкознания / ИЯ АН СССР. — Т.3. — М.: Наука, 1976.
    • = Lytkin, V. I.; Teplyashina, T. I. "Permic languages". The Fundamentals of Fenno-Ugric linguistics. (The Academy of Sciences of the USSR.) Vol. 3. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
  • Лыткин В. И. Коми-язьвинский диалект. — М.: Издательсвто АН СССР, 1961.
    • = Lytkin, V. I. (ed.) The Komi-Yazva dialect. Moscow, 1961.
  • Коми-пермяцкий язык / Под ред. проф. В. И. Лыткина. — Кудымкар: Коми-пермяцкое книжное издательство, 1962.
    • = Lytkin, V. I. (ed.) The Komi-Permyak language. Kudymkar, 1962.
  • Паршакова А. Л. Коми-язьвинский букварь. Пермь, 2003.
    • = Parshakova, A. L. Komi-Yazva primer. Perm, 2003.
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