Definitions
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- proper noun A
Finnic language spoken inUdmurtia , arepublic ofRussia . - noun A member of the
people inhabiting Udmurtia or speaking Udmurt. - adjective Of or pertaining to Udmurts, Udmurtia, or the Udmurt language.
Etymologies
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Examples
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No, this time the target was a report on the Russian language web site of the BBC -- a study by the British medical journal The Lancet that found alcohol abuse in the Udmurt capital of Izhevsk to be the leading cause of death among working age males.
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Of 99,000 Udmurt schoolchildren only 29,000 are learning the native language, whereas Udmurtian as the language of instruction is used only in the primary schools of the rural areas, where it is a preparation to the instruction in Russian.
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The sphere of usage of the Udmurt language is narrow and its status is low.
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And when I look at the official Udmurt State University site, where they train those teachers, I see that beside their STATE status, being main Udmurt higher education institution located in the capital, the site operates in two languages: Russian and English.
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Your link is definitely written in Udmurt, although I have no idea what it says.
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Not to mention poetry, in my college years Udmurt was relatively background language, secondary to Russian.
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For instance, I can't read this website, or even verify that it is in fact about Udmurt poetry, but this post says so, and that's good enough for me.
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Two newspapers and four magazines are currently published in the Udmurt language.
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"The Udmurt republic and the Stavropol and Leningrad regions are causing the biggest concerns," he told Medvedev, who chaired the meeting in Volgograd, the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, widely seen as a turning point in World War II.
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"The Udmurt republic and the Stavropol and Leningrad regions are causing the biggest concerns," he told Medvedev, who chaired the meeting in Volgograd, the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, widely seen as a turning point in World War II.
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