Uralic · ISO 639-3 kom · kv
Komi Language Коми кыв
Komi is an Uralic language spoken by about 260,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Komi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Komi
About the Komi language
Komi (Коми кыв) is spoken by about 260,000 people. It belongs to the Uralic language family and, more precisely, to the Komi group within the Komi branch.
Where is Komi spoken?
Komi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (114,065).
Komi is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Komi is written in the Cyrillic script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Komi-Permyak.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 kv, ISO 639-3 kom.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.