Editing Udmurt language (section)

==Dialects==
Udmurt varieties can be grouped into three broad dialect groups:
* Northern Udmurt, spoken along the [[Cheptsa River]]
* Southern Udmurt
* Besermyan, spoken by the strongly [[Turkification|Turkified]] [[Besermyan]]s

A continuum of intermediate dialects between Northern and Southern Udmurt is found, and literary Udmurt includes features from both areas. Besermyan is more sharply distinguished.{{cn|date=September 2015}}

The differences between the dialects are not major and mainly involve differences in vocabulary, largely attributable to the stronger influence of Tatar in the southern end of the Udmurt-speaking area. A few differences in morphology and phonology still exist as well; for example:
* Southern Udmurt has an accusative ending ''-ыз'' {{IPA|/-ɨz/}}, contrasting with northern ''-ты'' {{IPA|/-tɨ/}}.
* Southwestern Udmurt distinguishes an eighth vowel phoneme {{IPA|/ʉ/}}.
* Besermyan has {{IPA|/e/}} in place of standard Udmurt {{IPA|/ə/}} (thus distinguishing only six vowel phonemes), and {{IPA|/ɵ/}} in place of standard Udmurt {{IPA|/ɨ/}}.