Komi-Yodz
Коми-Ёдз кыл
Native to	Russia
Region	Perm Krai
Native speakers	(undated figure of 2,000[citation needed])
Language family	Uralic Permic Komi Komi-Yodz
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	komi1277
ELP	Yazva
Yazva Komi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

The Komi-Yazva language (Коми-Ёдз кыл, Komi-Yodz kyl) is spoken mostly in Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai in Russia, in the basin of the Yazva (Yodz) River. It is a Permic language closely related to Komi-Zyrian and Permyak. It has no official status.

About two thousand speakers densely live in Krasnovishersky District.

Studies

Availability^{[clarification needed]} of the particular vowels together with features of phonetics and stress system led Finnish linguist Arvid Genetz in 1889 to consider Komi-Jazva as a separate dialect.^{[citation needed]} Later, this decision was confirmed by the famous Finno-Ugricist Vasily Lytkin, who studied the Komi-Jazva idiom in depth from 1949 until 1953.^{[citation needed]}

Linguogeography

Area and number

In the early 1960s, about 2,000 speakers lived compactly on the territory of Krasnovishersky District of Perm Krai (Antipinskaya, Parshakovskaya, Bychinskaya and Verkh-Yazvinskaya village administrations). In total, there were about 3,000 language-speakers.^[1]

Status

The presence of special vowel sounds, specific phonetics and accent system allowed first Finnish linguist Arvid Genetz, who studied the people in 1889, and then the Finno-Ugric philologist Vasily Lytkin, who visited the Komi-Yazvinians three times between 1949 and 1953, to identify the Komi-Yazvinians as a separate dialect.^[1] Some researchers consider it to be a dialect of the Komi-Permyak language.^[2]

Alphabet

The first Komi-Yazva primer was printed in 2003. Its author was the teacher of the Parshavskaya school A. L. Parshakova. This book also became the first one ever printed in Komi-Yazva language.