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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- foothills of the Ural Mountains in Russia
- Ethnicity
- Permians
- Linguistic classification
- Uralic Permic
- Subdivisions
- Komi Udmurt ? Meshchera †
- Glottolog
- perm1256
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Finno-Permic
- Has part
- Komi
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- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object
- topic's main category
- Category:Permic languages
- Commons category
- Permic languages
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Encyclopedic overview
The Permic or Permian languages are a branch of the Uralic language family. They are spoken in several regions to the west of the Ural Mountains within the Russian Federation. The total number of speakers is around 950,000, of which around 550,000 speak the most widely spoken language, Udmurt. Like other Uralic languages, the Permic languages are primarily agglutinative and have a rich system of grammatical cases. Unlike many other agglutinative languages, they do not have vowel harmony.
The earliest Permic language to be preserved in writing was Old Permic or Old Zyryan, in the 14th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Permic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.