Permic-Iranian language contacts according to phonetics and morphology of the Udmurt and Komi languages

Sergey Belykh (School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, RANEPA, Moscow; bibulus@e-izhevsk.ru)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 21/3-4, 2023 - p.282-299

Abstract: In this paper I discuss some results of the Iranian linguistic influence on the Permic branch languages of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family — Udmurt, Komi-Zyryan and Komi-Permyak. Unlike works by researchers of the long and recent past, the emphasis in the article is not on the lexical fund of these languages, but on their phonetic and morphological systems.

Keywords: Iranian languages, Scythian language, Ossetian language, Finno-Ugric languages, Permian languages, Udmurt language, Komi-Zyryan language, Komi-Permyak language, phonetics, morphology, historical linguistics, ethnic history

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