Languages of the Volga-Kama region

The languages of the Volga-Kama region include several Turkic and Uralic languages spoken in the Volga-Kama region (along the Volga and Kama rivers) in Russia. These include [varieties of] Tatar, Bashqort, Chuvash, Mari, Komi, Mordvin, and Udmurt (and linguistically, to some extent, Russian).

The languages

The following table shows information about Volga-Kama varieties and information about apertium projects related to the languages.

language	iso	num speakers	UNESCO classification	Apertium support
Tatar	tat	6500K	0. none	incubator/apertium-tr-tt/ incubator/apertium-tt-kk/ incubator/apertium-tt-ky/ incubator/apertium-tt-ru/ incubator/apertium-cv-tt/ nursery/apertium-tt-ba/
Bashqort	bak	1379K	1. vulnerable	nursery/apertium-tt-ba/
Chuvash	chv	1325K	1. vulnerable	incubator/apertium-cv-ru/ incubator/apertium-cv-tr/ incubator/apertium-cv-tt/
Udmurt	udm	0464K	2. definitely endangered	incubator/apertium-fin-udm/ nursery/apertium-udm-rus/
Mari - Eastern	mhr	0414K	2. definitely endangered	incubator/apertium-kpv-mhr/
Mordvin - Erzya	myv	0400K	2. definitely endangered
Komi - Zyryan	kpv	0217K	2. definitely endangered	incubator/apertium-kpv-mhr/
Mordvin - Moksha	mdf	0200K	2. definitely endangered
Komi - Permyak	koi	0094K	2. definitely endangered
Mari - Western	mrj	0037K	3. severely endangered
Komi - Yazva	koi	0000K	3. severely endangered

Existing computational resources

Corpora and corpora projects

• University of Turku - Research Unit for Volgaic Languages

Keyboards

• Xkb includes keyboards for the following languages:
  • Tatar
  • Chuvash
  • ...?

Morphological Transducers

• Mari