Komi-Permyak Language - Glottonym

Glottonym

The original name of the Komi-Permyak language is коми кыв "Komi language", identical with the native name of the Komi-Zyrian language.

In the 1920s, the soviet authorities introduced the new name for the Komi language in Perm Region as коми-пермяцкий язык, combining the native name of the language with the Russian one. The new name was transliterated in Komi as коми-пермяцкöй кыв 'Komi-Permyak language'. In so way the local language was nominally separated from the Komi-Zyrian language, that officially received the original name коми кыв. The Komis of Region Perm had to officially use the new name, even though it has abusive connotations for the speakers, continuing in their colloquial speech to use exclusively the original name of their language as коми кыв.

Only in the early 2000s (decade) has started a controversial process of replacing the offensive official name by a more correct one. The term перем коми кыв 'Permian Komi language' was proposed and it is used nowadays (alongside with the old term) in local mass-media, in scientific papers and in the Komi-Permyak Wikipedia.

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