Udmurt (, ) is a
Uralic language, part of the
Permic subgroup, spoken by the
Udmurt natives of the Russian constituent republic of
Udmurtia, where it is co-official with
Russian. It is written using a
Cyrillic alphabet, including five characters not used in the
Russian alphabet: . Together with
Komi and
Komi-Permyak languages, it constitutes the Permic grouping. Among outsiders, it has traditionally been referred to by its Russian
exonym, Votyak. Udmurt has borrowed vocabulary from the neighboring languages
Tatar and Russian.