Names Originally, the word ‘komi’ probably referred to “people”. The Komi have called themselves ‘komi voitõr’ (Komi people), ‘komi-mort’ (Komi person), ‘komijoz’ (the Komi), ‘iz´vatas’ (the Izhma-Komi). Komi-Zyrians and Komi-Permyaks …
According to recent studies, the peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages have inhabited Europe for about ten millennia. It seems that before the “Great Migration”, mainly Finno-Ugric …