Udmurt

Also known as Votyak, Udmurt language

Uralic language

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Udmurt is a language spoken primarily in the Udmurt Republic in Russia, and it belongs to the Uralic language family, which also includes Finnish and Hungarian. It matters as an important example of the linguistic diversity within Russia and the Uralic language group, though it faces challenges as a minority language in an increasingly Russian-dominant region.

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exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Udmurt
Commons category: Udmurt language
Wikimedia language code: udm
native label: Удмурт кыл
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 270000
short name: удмуртаг
P10369: Ukraine
entry in abbreviations table: удм.
female form of label: la langue oudmourte

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Udmurt (/ʊdˈmʊərt/; Cyrillic: Удмурт) is a Permic language spoken by the Udmurt people who are native to Udmurtia. As a Uralic language, it is distantly related to languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Mansi, Khanty, and Hungarian. The Udmurt language is co-official with Russian within Udmurtia.

It is written using the Cyrillic alphabet with the addition of five characters not used in the Russian alphabet: Ӝ/ӝ, Ӟ/ӟ, Ӥ/ӥ, Ӧ/ӧ, and Ӵ/ӵ. Together with the Komi and Permyak languages, it constitutes the Permic grouping of the Uralic family. The Udmurt language shares similar agglutinative structures with its closest relative, the Komi language. Among outsiders, it has traditionally been referred to by its Russian exonym, Votyak. Udmurt has borrowed vocabulary from neighboring languages, mainly from Tatar and Russian.