This article is about the Uralic language spoken in Russia. For other uses, see Moksha (disambiguation).
Moksha
Mokshan[1]
мокшень кяль
Pronunciation
IPA:['mɔkʃənʲkælʲ]
Native to
Russia
Region
European Russia
Ethnicity
253,000 Mokshas (2010 census)
Native speakers
300,000 claimed to speak "Mordvin" while 20,000 claimed to speak "Moksha Mordvin" (2020 census)[2]
Language family
Uralic
Mordvinic
Moksha
Writing system
Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in
Mordovia (Russia)
Regulated by
Mordovian Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics
Language codes
ISO 639-2
mdf
ISO 639-3
mdf
Glottolog
moks1248
ELP
Moksha
Mordvin languages at the beginning of the 20th century[3][4]
Moksha is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Moksha (мокшень кяль, mokšəń käĺ, pronounced['mɔkʃənʲkʲælʲ]) is a Mordvinic language of the Uralic family, with around 130,000 native speakers in 2010.
Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia.[5]
Its closest relative is the Erzya language, with which it is not mutually intelligible. Moksha is also possibly closely related to the extinct Meshcherian and Muromian languages.[6]
^Moksha language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 6. Население по родному языку" [Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 6. population according to native language.]. rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
^Rantanen, Timo; Tolvanen, Harri; Roose, Meeli; Ylikoski, Jussi; Vesakoski, Outi (2022-06-08). "Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic". PLOS ONE. 17 (6): e0269648. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1769648R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269648. PMC 9176854. PMID 35675367.
^Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
^[1] Encyclopædia Britannica
^Janse, Mark; Sijmen Tol; Vincent Hendriks (2000). Language Death and Language Maintenance. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. A108. ISBN 978-90-272-4752-0.
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