Komi-Permyak

Facts

  • Language: Komi-Permyak
  • Alternate names: Kama Permyak, Komi-Perm, Komi-Permyat, Permyak
  • Language code: koi
  • Language family: Uralic, Permian, Komi
  • Earlier forms: Chud Zavolotskaya.
  • Number of speakers: 63000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable [Read more...]
  • Script: Cyrillic script. Latin script, used during the 1930s and 1940s. Old Permic script, no longer in use.

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    Introduction

    Permyak language is one of two regional varieties of the pluricentrical Permic languages, the other variety being Komi-Zyryan.

    The Komi-Permyak Verb

    Komi infinitives are marked with -ны. as in мунны, 'to go'. There is one phoneme which undergoes consonant gradation when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel. This change is в → л as in овны ‘to live’ → олан ‘you live’. Another exception is the verb локны, which has an epenthetic [t] added before a suffix beginning with a vowel, e.g. локтан ‘you come’.

    The indicative mood has four tenses: present, future and two past tenses. In addition, there are four past tense structures which include auxiliary verbs. Verbs are negated by use of an auxiliary negative verb that conjugates with personal endings. Separate personal pronouns are not required in verb phrases.

    Verblist