Who are the Komi?

International audience The aim of this article is to show the Komi’s place within the Finno-Ugric linguistic group and to explain their particular features, in order to understand more precisely the information of the following articles. It introduces the different Komi ethnographic groups, the Perm...

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Main Author: Toulouze, Eva
Other Authors: Centre de recherches Europes-Eurasie (CREE EA 4513), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Cagnoli, Sébastien, European Project: CECT
Format: Book Part
Language:French
Published: HAL CCSD 2010
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Online Access:https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276202
https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276202/document
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Summary:International audience The aim of this article is to show the Komi’s place within the Finno-Ugric linguistic group and to explain their particular features, in order to understand more precisely the information of the following articles. It introduces the different Komi ethnographic groups, the Permiaks and the Izhma Komi and afterwards concentrates on the Zyrian, on their contacts with the Russian world and on these contacts’ influence on the Komi’s way of life, especially the area’s early evangelisation, and the emergence of an intelligentsia earlier than in the rest of the Finno-Ugric world. I comment upon the role of Ivan Kuratov, Georgi Lytkin and Kallistrat Zhakov. This period is followed by the Soviet period, whose main change was Komi autonomy. The article shows how Komi communist leaders attempted to implement their national policy, both in regard to the territory and to the language. The repressions ended these endeavours and stroke particularly hard the non-Russian regions. But life went on: the Komi had to adapt, while after World War II demographic trends and new school regulations changed the linguistic situation. The article concludes with some reflexions on nowadays perspectives. Cet article général entend situer les Komis dans la famille finno-ougrienne et donner un aperçu de leurs caractéristiques, permettant au lecteur de replacer les informations contenues dans les communications suivantes dans leur contexte. Цель этой статьи – показать место коми в финно-угорской языковой семье и рассказать об их особенностях, что позволит читателю рассмотреть приведенные в следующих презентациях данные более подробно.Статья знакомит с пермскими группами и их членами, а затем концентрируется на различных коми этнографических группах, маргинальных коми-пермяках и коми-ижемцах. В дальнейшем статья в основном фокусируется на судьбе зырян и делает упор на давних контактах с русским миром, которые оказывали сильное влияние на образ жизни коми. После упоминания о главных последствиях ранней христианизации ...