300,000 claimed to speak "Mordovin" while 50,000 claimed to speak "Erzya-Mordvin" (2020 census)[1]
Language family
Uralic
Mordvinic
Erzya
Writing system
Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in
Mordovia (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2
myv
ISO 639-3
myv
Glottolog
erzy1239
ELP
Erzya
Mordvin languages at the beginning of the 20th century[2][3]
Erzya is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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The Erzya language (эрзянь кель, eŕźań keĺ, pronounced[ˈerʲzʲanʲˈkelʲ]), also Erzian or historically Arisa, is spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. A diaspora can also be found in Armenia and Estonia, as well as in Kazakhstan and other states of Central Asia. Erzya is currently written using Cyrillic with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. In Mordovia, Erzya is co-official with Moksha and Russian.
The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages. Erzya is a language that is closely related to Moksha but has distinct phonetics, morphology and vocabulary.
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Socialist Republics, in the languages of the Soviet Republics (presented in the constitutional order) and other languages of the USSR, were as follows...
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century, book publishing began in the Mordovian languages. So, in 1804, a translation into the Erzyalanguage of the Church Slavonic primer with a catechism...
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community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
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