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syrieno

English translation: Komi-Zyrian

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Italian term or phrase:syrieno
English translation:Komi-Zyrian
Entered by: Sarah Ponting

07:45 May 26, 2002
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Linguistics / linguistics
Italian term or phrase: syrieno
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?
Sarah Ponting
Italy
Local time: 06:38
Komi (zyrian)
Explanation:
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
Selected response from:

Mario Marcolin
Sweden
Local time: 06:38
Grading comment
Thanks. Sarah
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5 +1Komi (zyrian)
Mario Marcolin


  

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Komi (zyrian)


Explanation:
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)
--------------------------------------------------

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


    Reference: http://members.tripod.com/~anttikoski/eng_komi.html
Mario Marcolin
Sweden
Local time: 06:38
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks. Sarah

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