Together with the Komi and Permyak languages, it constitutes the Permic grouping of the Uralic family.

In 2010, per the Russian census, there were around 324,000 speakers of the language in the country, out of the ethnic population of roughly 554,000.

[5] Ethnologue estimated that there were 550,000 native speakers (77%) out of an ethnic population of 750,000 in the former Russian SFSR (1989 census),[6] a decline of roughly 41% in 21 years.

Finnish inessive phrase isossa kylässä, in which iso "large" is inflected according to the head noun).

*Of all the locative cases, personal pronouns can only inflect in the allative (also called approximative).

However, the inanimate interrogative pronouns 'what' in the locative cases have the base form кыт-.

The nominative case of interrogative pronouns are listed in the following table: Udmurt verbs are divided into two conjugation groups, both having the infinitive marker -ны.

Many loanwords are from the Tatar language, which has also strongly influenced Udmurt phonology and syntax.

[13] The romantic comedy film Berry-Strawberry, a joint Polish-Udmurt production, is in the Udmurt language.