Komi-Yazva language
The Komi-Yazva language (Коми-Ёдз кыл, Komi-Yodz kyl) is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Permyak, and spoken mostly in Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai in Russia, in the basin of the Yazva (Yodz) River. It has no official status.
| Komi-Yodz | |
|---|---|
| Коми-Ёдз кыл | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Perm Krai |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 2,000[citation needed]) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | - |
| Glottolog | komi1277 |
| ELP | Yazva |
Traditional distribution of the Komi languages | |
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.
Studies edit
Availability[clarification needed] 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.[citation needed] Later, this decision was confirmed by the famous Finno-Ugricist Vasily Lytkin, who studied the Komi-Jazva idiom in depth from 1949 until 1953.[citation needed]
Linguogeography edit
Area and number edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ a b Vasily Lytkin (1961). The Komi-Yazvin dialect. Academy of Sciences of the USSR Publishing House.
- ^ 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.
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Bibliography edit
- 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.