Udmurt
Americannoun
PLURAL
UdmurtsPLURAL
Udmurt-
a member of a Uralic people living in the Udmurt Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas of the Kama River basin.
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the Permic language of the Udmurt.
Etymology
Origin of Udmurt
< Russian udmúrt < Udmurt: a self-designation ( ud- ( Votyak ) + murt man, human being)
Example Sentences
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The attack occurred at School No. 88 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurt Republic, a region in central Russia west of the Ural Mountains.
From Washington Post
After that, the group won minor fame performing songs by the Beatles, Deep Purple and the Eagles in Udmurt as a novelty act.
From New York Times
They are almost certainly the first Eurovision contestants to perform part of their song in the obscure Udmurt language, which is distantly related to Finnish.
From Seattle Times
The refrain of the Buranovo Grannies "Party for Everybody" is in English, but the remainder of the song is in Udmurt, a distant relation of Finnish spoken by some 325,000 people.
From Seattle Times
From that congress I have the following languages translated: Karelian, Udmurt, Estonian, Komi and Nenets.
From Project Gutenberg
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