File:5-Permic-branch.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- foothills of the Ural Mountains in Russia
- Ethnicity
- Permians
- Linguistic classification
- Uralic Permic
- Subdivisions
- Komi Udmurt ? Meshchera †
- Glottolog
- perm1256
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Permic languages
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~7 min read
Article
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.
Connections
Enets
Entity
Mator
Entity
Russia
Country
Komi
Entity
Proto-Uralic
Entity
Finnish
Entity
Hungarian
Entity
Estonian
Entity
International Standard Book Number
Entity
vowel
Entity
Ural Mountains
Entity
language family
Entity
Uralic
Entity
digital object identifier
Entity
Udmurt
Entity
Karelian
Entity
Sámi
Entity
Finno-Ugric
Entity
Erzya
Entity
Livonian
Entity