Erzya Language (myv)

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Also Known As: Mordvin,Mordvin-erzya,Erzia,Erzya


Description:

The Erzya language (эрзянь кель) is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. A diaspora can also be found in Armenia, Estonia as well as in Kazakhstan and other newly independent states of Central Asia. Erzya is currently written using the Cyrillic alphabet 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 Finno-Volgaic languages, a sub-branch of the Uralic languages. Erzya is closely related to Moksha, but is distinct in its phonetics, morphology and vocabulary. The modern Erzya alphabet is the same as for Russian: The pre–1927 version of the Erzya alphabet included the additional letters a with dieresis (ä) and schwa (ə):

Latin alphabet (officially approved by government of Nizhne-Volzhskiy kray in 1932, but was never used) a в c ç d ә e f g y i j k l m n o p r s ş t u v x z ƶ ь..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Erzya Language Speakers

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Overview

Main Country: Russia
Spoken In:

Regions: Europe

ISO 639-3 Code: myv

Classification Taxonomy

All Languages

  Uralic Group

    Finno-Ugric Group

      Finno-Permic Group

        Finno-Cheremisic Group

          Finno-Mordvinic Group

            Mordvinic Group

              Erzya Language