LATINIZATION OF ALPHABET OF THE KOMI-PERMYAKS OF THE URAL REGION IN G. NECHAEV’s STUDY

Abstract

The article provides information about G. Nechaev’s study, “Latinization of the Komi-Permyaks of the Ural Region”, dated March 7, 1933, deposited in the archival fund of the All-Union Central Committee of the new (Latinized) alphabet under the Council of Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, stored in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The study noted that Permian Komi, who had been in high school and learned how to communicate in Russian somehow, no longer considered themselves Permian Komi, but considered themselves Russian. Information is given on three directions in resolving the issue of the Komi-Permyak alphabet: the great-power-chauvinistic one, which proposed the Russian alphabet; the one of Latinists who proposed the Latin alphabet, oriented to the Western bourgeois states; nationalistic one, oriented to V.A. Molodtsov’ alphabet based on modified cyrillic. Unification of the Komi-Permian alphabet, with all the shortcomings in work, made it possible to solve the main problem - the elimination of illiteracy, and the struggle of various directions showed the indigenous population's deep interest in creating and mastering the modern language. The information provided will expand the source study base on the history of linguistics, in particular the Komi-Permian language, and can be used for educational and research purposes.