Komi-Zyrian language
Spoken in
- Uralic Finno - Ugric Permian Komi
Kv
Com
Kpv
Komi - Syrjänisch, often only Syrjänisch, is one of the two main dialects of Komi. It is mainly spoken in the autonomous republic of Komi in Russia. Some settlements are also on the Kola Peninsula. The 1917 introduced a written language based on the variety of the capital Syktyvkar, it is written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Since 1992, Komi - Syrjänisch has the status of an official language in the Republic of Komi. The number of Zyryans is according to the census of 1989 at about 344,000. Ethnologue 262 200 are native to according to a source from 1993.
It differs from the Komi - Permjakischen, the other main dialect, are phonological nature. However, there are few morphological differences. The palatalized in Altkomi lute t ʲ d ʲ and have lost their palatalization in Syrjänischen. Some vocalic endings differ and syllable- closing l is partially disappeared in Syrjänischen or has become v or w ( eg VEV "horse", VEV - Teg " without a horse ," but VEL ën " with a horse "). The latter also applies to some permjakische varieties, but where original l in all positions to v was. All Komi dialects south of the river Vychegda have, however, received original l. In Syrjänischen j merges at the beginning of endings with palatalized consonants standing in front (eg kan ʲ n ʲ as "Cats", by kan ʲ " cat " -ja " majority " ) while it melts in Permjakischen with all consonants. The emphasis is only in Syrjänischen free. This means that every syllable of a word can be stressed without changing the meaning. The morphological differences relate to the case system. Syrjänisch has 17 grammatical cases, five less than Permjakisch.
The division of Komi in these two main dialects is relatively weak and has mainly territorial and political reasons. However, some scientists even believe that the two main dialects of Komi are two different languages.
Noteworthy is the large variation in Syrjänischen in the pronominal system. For the personal pronoun of the third person plural, there are, for example, the variants well, najëzda, nijëzda, nije, nija, NIA, NIDA, n ʲ ida, n ʲ idajas, sijajas, sijëzda and ënžajas, all of which are equivalent.