KOMI. What this language is and why I want to learn it

In this video I'm talking about the KOMI language, one of my last language challenges. At the beginning of the video I'm talking about general characteristics of this language. Also, I'm explaining WHY I want to learn it and how I'm connected to Komi.

The Komi language is a Uralic language from the Finno-Ugric language group, which also has Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian.
Komi is a minority language spoken in the northeastern European part of Russia.

One of the most fascinating things about KOMI is its writing system.
The first writing system, the Old Permic script, was invented in the 14th century by the missionary Stepan Khrap. The alphabet shows some similarity to medieval Greek and Cyrillic. In the 16th century this alphabet was replaced by the Russian alphabetwith certain modifications for affricates. In the 1920s, the language was written in Molodtsov alphabet, also derived from Cyrillic. In the 1930s it was switched to Latin. Since the 1940s the Komi alphabet was simply changed to the Russian alphabet with the addition of some new letters.

The last song and video are taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvdNAEBI2wI

Видео KOMI. What this language is and why I want to learn it канала Daniela Antonchuk