page_title: Komi-Zyryan language
section_title: Writing system
hierarchical_section_title: Komi-Zyryan language / Writing system
caption_attribution_description: English: A sample of the en:Komi language words. Upper "Улица Коммунистическая" is in Russian, lower "Коммунистическöй улича" is in Komi. Both mean "Communist street". This picture was taken in en:Syktyvkar, the capital of en:Komi Republic
context_page_description: Komi language, or Komi-Zyryan language, is one of the two regional varieties of the pluricentric Komi language, the other regional variety being Komi-Permyak.
  Komi-Zyryan is spoken by the Komi-Zyryans' ethnic group in Komi Republic and some other parts of Russia. In 1994, Komi-Zyryan had about 285,000 speakers. The Komi-Zyryan language has a standard form.
  It was written in the form of Old Permic alphabet for liturgical purposes as early as the 14th century in the Old Permic script. Said alphabet was replaced by Cyrillic in the 17th century. A tradition of secular works of literature in the modern form of the language dates back to the 19th century.
context_section_description: The first writing system, the Old Permic script, was invented in the 14th century by the missionary Stepan Khrap, apparently of a Komi mother in Veliky Ustyug. The alphabet shows some similarity to medieval Greek and Cyrillic. In the 16th century this alphabet was replaced by the Russian alphabet with certain modifications for affricates. In the 1920s, the language was written in Molodtsov alphabet, also derived from Cyrillic. In the 1930s it was switched to Latin. Since the 1940s it uses the Russian alphabet plus the additional letters І, і and Ӧ, ӧ.
  Komi alphabet (Коми анбур)
  Letters particular to the Molodtsov alphabet include ԁ, ԃ, ԅ, ԇ, ԉ, ԋ, ԍ, ԏ, most of which represent palatalized consonants.
caption: A sample of the Komi language words. Upper "Улица Коммунистическая" is in Russian, lower "Коммунистическӧй улича" is in Komi. Both mean "Communist street". This picture was taken in Syktyvkar, the capital of Komi Republic
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