Permic language

The Permic languages are a branch of the Uralic language family.

This inventory is retained nearly unchanged in the modern-day Permic languages.

Proto-Uralic word roots have been subject to particularly heavy reduction in the Permic languages.

Finno-Permic" words have known cognates at furthest in the Permic languages. "

The other Permic language is Udmurt, to which Komi is closely related.

It is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Permyak.

However, this taxonomy has more recently been called into question, and the relationship of the Permic languages to other Uralic languages remains uncertain.

Like other Uralic languages, the Permic languages are primarily agglutinative and have a rich system of grammatical cases.

The extant Permic languages are Udmurt and several closely related Komi varieties:

Especially in the Ugric and Permic languages, almost no trace of unstressed vowels appears in basic word roots.

Noun roots in the Permic languages are predominantly monosyllabic and invariable with the canonical shape (C)VC.

The earliest Permic language to be preserved in writing was Old Permic or Old Zyrian, in the 14th century.

However, the form viha does have correspondences in related languages as far as Permic languages, where it means not only "poison" but "bile" or "green or yellow".

He preferred to equate the Toyma with a particular tribe that lived in Nizhnaya Toyma area, and noted that it also could belong to Permic languages.

The Permians are a branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples and include Komis and Udmurts, speakers of Permic languages.

The Permic languages have traditionally been classified as Finno-Permic languages, along with the Finnic, Saami, Mordvin, and Mari languages.

This name replaced the original Finno-Ugric word for "heaven" (), which is preserved in the Sámi and Permic languages but whose meaning was shifted to "air" in Finnic.

Proto-Hungarian likely had contacts with the Permic languages at this time, as indicated by a nontrivial number of shared vocabulary and sound developments (which are not found in the other Uralic languages).

For instance, linguist Tapani Salminen rejects the existence of a Proto-Ugric language, saying Hungarian was a member of an "areal genetic unit" that also included Permic languages.

In the traditional taxonomy of the Uralic languages, Finno-Permic is estimated to have split from Finno-Ugric around 3000-2500 BC, and branched into Permic languages and Finno-Volgaic languages around 2000 BC.

The speakers of Permic languages, the Permians, are sometimes considered belonging to the Volga Finnic group of peoples because according to some theories their ancient homeland lies in the Northern part of the Volga River basin.

The term Finnic languages has often been used to designate all the Finno-Permic languages, based on an earlier belief that Permic languages would be much more closely related to the Baltic Finnic languages than to the Ugric languages.

The Finno-Permic languages (also Finno-Permian and Fenno-Permic/Permian) are a traditional but disputed group of the Uralic languages that comprises the Baltic-Finnic languages, Sami languages, Mordvinic languages, Mari language, Permic languages, and likely a number of extinct languages.

Finnic mythologies are the various mythologies of the Finnic peoples the term Finnic has traditionally been a synonym for speakers of Finno-Permic languages (including the Baltic-Finnic languages, Volga-Finnic languages, Permic languages and the Sami languages) of the Uralic language family.