To the language of ancient inhabitants of Perm

Abstract

This review article looks into some aspects of the origin, development and current state of the Komi-Perm language. The paper touches upon the origin of the ethnonym Komi-Perm, shows the sources of penetration of foreign language words into the language under study. The importance of imagery words in labeling sound and associative forms has been determined. The article briefly notes the ways of realizing the representations of space and time by grammatical means of the language: developed case and postpositional systems, grammatical forms of the past tense. The paper presents an attempt to explain how the Komi-Perm language has adapted to the absence of rather ordinary abstract words. Imagery and symbolism actively realized by highly motivated lexemes are
demonstrated on the image of a fly (gut), when set expressions and words are perceived by all KomiPerm language speakers clearly semantically without any comments and clarifications. The development of the modern Komi-Perm language is connected with the tendencies of word reduction, further development of the case system, changes in grammatical forms of adverbs and so on.