Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

syrieno

English translation:

Komi-Zyrian

Added to glossary by Sarah Ponting
May 26, 2002 07:45
21 yrs ago
Italian term

syrieno

Italian to English Other Linguistics linguistics
Once again, this term crops up in a test discussing the origins of the Etruscan language:
"La radice poi- compare con valore attivo in sarmatico poja-rik, con valore passivo in finnico poi-ka, in syrieno po e in wogulico puw".
It's obviously a language, but which?
Proposed translations (English)
5 +1 Komi (zyrian)

Proposed translations

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Komi (zyrian)

OR Komi-Zyrian
"(Komi) language - one of the Finno-Ugric languages (Permic group). Spoken in the Republic of Komi, the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty- Mansi autonomous districts and the Murmansk region.The number of the Komi-Zyrians in Russia is 336,3 thousand. 71,0 % of them regard Komi as their mother tongue, 28,9 % Russian. The language is divided
into a number of local dialects."

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Note added at 2002-05-26 08:12:39 (GMT)
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The text talks about three Uralic languages:
finnico (Finnish)
syrieno (Komi or Zyrian)
wogulico (Mansi or Vogul)

cf short article
\"The Finno-Ugric language family\"
at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2282/finno.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Gian
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