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The Udmurts are a people who speak the Udmurt language. Throughout history they have been known in Russian as Chud Otyatskaya (чудь отяцкая), Otyaks, Wotyaks or Votyaks (most-known name), and in Tatar as Ar.
There have been claims that they are the "most red-headed" people in the world. The long-extinct Budini tribesmen, said to have been precursors of the modern Udmurts, were described as being predominantly red-headed by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
The name Udmurt probably comes from *odo-mort 'meadow people,' where the first part represents the Permic root *od(o) 'meadow, glade, turf, greenery', and the second part murt means 'person' (cf. Komi mort, Mari mari), an early borrowing from an Iranian language (such as Scythian): *mertä or *martiya 'person, man' (cf. Urdu/Persian mard). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts are referred to as lugovye lyudi 'meadow people', alongside the traditional Russian name otyaki .
On the other hand, in the Russian tradition, the name 'meadow people' refers to the inhabitants of the left bank of river in general. Recently, the most relevant is the version of V. V. Napolskikh and S. K. Belykh. They suppose that ethnonym was borrowed from the Iranian entirely: *anta-marta 'resident of outskirts, border zone' (cf. Antes) → Proto-Permic *odə-mort → Udmurt udmurt.
Популярная Удмуртская Песня. (с) Шудон Корка (р) ТК Моя Удмуртия
реж. Денис Корнилов г. Ижевск
The bride and groom on their wedding listening folk ritual songs.
Гажано удмурт калык, вань сюлмысьтым мон тüледыз курисько: лыдӟелэ Инмарлэсь Кылзэ удмурт кылын! Выру карысь черкамы ми тü понна котькуд арня вöсяськиськомы! Выруысь «Улон Писпу» черкысь эшъёсты. Udmurts have received their full Bible on 21th of November 2013 in Izevsk, Udmurtia (Russian Federation).Robirohi is inging How Great You Are with people in Estonian and Udmurt languages.
the y-dna r1a1 is in scythian-sarmatian folks (bulgarians, hungarians, croatians, poles) between 20-60% the slavs (rusisans, ukrainians) too and the finn-typeds (komi, udmurt) is 20%
Алёна Тимерханова и Альфира Камалитдинова (Урам кюй) ________ Udmurts are genetically and linguistically closely related to the Volga Turkic peoples, especially to the Oghur Turkic tribes. The etymology for "Ugri" ("Ugor") and Turkic "Ogur" ("Oghur") is rooted in a Turkic language. Their common Turko-Ugric language has a common root in the Saka-Oghur branch, belonging to a period when Turko-Tatar and Finno-Ugric dialects still formed a linguistic continuum in the 6th - 3rd cc. b.c. references: • http://www.turuz.info/Turkoloji-Tarix/149-Iskitler%20%28Sakalar%29%20%28Ilhami%20Durmush%29%28Ankara-2008%29.pdf • http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/21486 "A more general comparison by Bermisheva (2002) found that, at least maternally, “the Finno-Ugric populations ...
We think that most dancing people in the Volga region is Udmurt. Their dance culture evolved around the calendar cycles, ritual ceremonies and family celebrations. Удмурты считаются самым танцующим народом в Поволжье. Их танцевальная культура формировалась вокруг календарных циклов, обрядовых действ и семейных торжеств.