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Udmurt (удмурт кыл udmurt kyl) 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: Ӝ/ӝ Ӟ/ӟ Ӥ/ӥ Ӧ/ӧ and Ӵ/ӵ. 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.