Uralic · ISO 639-3 udm
Udmurt Language Удмурт
Udmurt is an Uralic language spoken by about 540,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Udmurt is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Udmurt
About the Udmurt language
Udmurt (Удмурт) is spoken by about 540,000 people, which makes it the 495th most spoken language in the world — just behind Papiamento (549,000) and ahead of Iron Ossetic (538,000). It belongs to the Uralic language family.
Where is Udmurt spoken?
Udmurt is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (267,559).
Udmurt is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Udmurt is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Komi and Komi-Permyak.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 udm.
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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.