ON EXTERNAL AND ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE NAMES OF LOCAL ETHNOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF THE KOMI-PERM AND THE RUSSIAN LIVING IN THE TERRITORY OF KOMI-PERM DISTRICT)
The article is devoted to the issues related to the names of ethnic groups of the Komi-Perm people, as well as the Russians living in the Komi-Perm district. Special attention is paid to the modern ethnonym Komi-Permyak , which contains in its composition both the foreign component (Permyak) and the term-self-name (Komi), as an exceptional example of such self-identification among all representatives of the Finno-Ugric language family. The article touches upon the problem of variability of names denoting today the Yazva and Zuzdin Komi-Perm people living outside the Komi-Perm district. Reasons for the emergence of pejorative ethnonyms in the speech of the Komi-Perm are revealed. The material shows that the opposition "the person of my group" - "the person of a different group" (even if the languages are cognate) first of all is based on the features of language as the most important sign of any ethnos. A number of features characterizes the names denoting ethnic groups of the Komi-Perm people at the present stage. For the official designation of the ethnic group (Komi-Permyak), a variant containing both an external ethnonym and a self-name component were adopted. In an informal setting, the self-name (Komi) is preserved, while the foreign term (Permyak) is lost. Yazva Komi-Perm and Zuzdin Komi-Perm for the self-identification adopted the received external identifier (Permian) and lost touch with the self-name (Komi). To implement the leading interdialectal differences in the area the name-pejorative lodz/vodz "gadfly" is used. The Russian-speaking population of the Yurlinsky district, called paryonki “steamed vegetables” by the Komi-Perm, identifies itself as a nickname of Russian origin.