Udmurt

Uralic language
Intangible natural_language Q13238
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Summary

Udmurt is a natural language[1]. Udmurt draws 2,681 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #178 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Soviet Union[3], Russia[4], Russian Empire[5]
  • Instance of: modern language[6]
  • Subclass of: Permic[7]
  • Writing system: Cyrillic script[8], Udmurt alphabets[9]
  • Commons category: Udmurt language[10]
  • Wikimedia language code: udm[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Udmurt language[12]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 324,000[13], 270,000[14]
  • Native label: Удмурт кыл[15]
  • Short name: удмуртаг[16]
  • UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[17]
  • Indigenous to: Udmurtia[18], Bashkortostan[19], Tatarstan[20], Mari El[21], Perm Krai[22], Kirov Oblast[23], Sverdlovsk Oblast[24]
  • Female form of label: la langue oudmourte[25]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/UDM[26], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Udmurt[27], https://uralic.clld.org/languages/23[28]
  • Has grammatical case: nominative case[29], accusative case[30], genitive case[31], partitive case[32], dative case[33], abessive case[34], adverbial-positive case[35], instrumental case[36], locative case[37], illative case[38], ablative case[39], egressive case[40], prolative case[41], approximative[42]
  • Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[43]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[44], nominative–accusative language[45], agglutinative language[46]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Udmurt-language films[47]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[48]
  • Entry in abbreviations table: удм.[49]

Why It Matters

Udmurt has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Udmurt is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 2010 Russian census. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for music in this language → Category:Udmurt-language music
    Maintained by wikiproject → Q131938994
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+324000'}, {'amount': '+270000'}
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 56.625346, 'lon': 52.13489}
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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