The
Permic languages are a branch of the
Uralic language family. They are spoken in several regions to the west of the
Ural Mountains within the
Russian Federation. The total number of speakers is around 950,000, of which around 550,000 speak the most widely spoken language,
Udmurt. Like other Uralic languages, the Permic languages are primarily agglutinative and have a rich system of grammatical cases. Unlike many others, they do not have
vowel harmony.