The Komi-Yazva language (Коми-Ёдз кыл, Komi-Yodz kyl) is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Permyak, and spoken mostly in Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai in Russia, in the basin of the Yazva (Yodz) River. It has no official status. It is the most divergent of all the Komi varieties.[2] About two thousand speakers densely live in Krasnovishersky District.
In the early 1960s, about 2,000 speakers lived compactly on the territory of Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai (Antipinskaya, Parshakovskaya, Bychinskaya and Verkh-Yazvinskaya village administrations). In total, there were about 3,000 language-speakers.[3]
Status
The presence of special vowel sounds, specific phonetics and accent system allowed first Finnish linguist Arvid Genetz, who studied the people in 1889, and then the Finno-Ugric philologist Vasily Lytkin, who visited the Komi-Yazvinians three times between 1949 and 1953, to identify the Komi-Yazvinians as a separate dialect.[3] Some researchers consider it to be a dialect of the Komi-Permyak language.[4]
Alphabet
The first Komi-Yazva primer was printed in 2003. Its author was the teacher of the Parshavskaya school A. L. Parshakova. This book also became the first one ever printed in Komi-Yazva language.
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^ abVasily Lytkin (1961). The Komi-Yazvin dialect. Academy of Sciences of the USSR Publishing House.
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= Lytkin, V. I.; Teplyashina, T. I. "Permic languages". The Fundamentals of Fenno-Ugric linguistics. (The Academy of Sciences of the USSR.) Vol. 3. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
Лыткин В. И. Коми-язьвинский диалект. — М.: Издательсвто АН СССР, 1961.
= Lytkin, V. I. (ed.) The Komi-Yazva dialect. Moscow, 1961.
Коми-пермяцкий язык / Под ред. проф. В. И. Лыткина. — Кудымкар: Коми-пермяцкое книжное издательство, 1962.
= Lytkin, V. I. (ed.) The Komi-Permyak language. Kudymkar, 1962.
Паршакова А. Л. Коми-язьвинский букварь. Пермь, 2003.
= Parshakova, A. L. Komi-Yazva primer. Perm, 2003.