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Erzyan (Эрзянь Кель (Erzjanj Kelj)) is spoken in the northern and eastern parts of the republic of Mordovia and adjacent Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. It is spoken by about 500,000 people. It is currently written using the Cyrillic alphabet with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. In Mordovia, Erzyan is co-official with Moksha and Russian. The Republic of Mordovia (Russian: Ð ÐµÑÐ¿ÑƒÌÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ° ÐœÐ¾Ñ€Ð´Ð¾ÌÐ²Ð¸Ñ, Moksha: ÐœÐ¾Ñ€Ð´Ð¾Ð²ÑÐºÑÐ¹ Ð ÐµÑÐ¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ°ÑÑŒ, Erzya: ÐœÐ¾Ñ€Ð´Ð¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð ÐµÑÐ¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ°ÑÑŒ ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...

The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of Finno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. Erzyan is closely related to the Moksha language, but is distinct in both its phonetics and vocabulary. Finno-Volgaic languages include the Balto-Finnic languages the SÃ¡mi languages the Mari language(s) and the two Mordvinian languages the Moksha language and the Erzya language. ... Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). ... The Moksha language is spoken mostly in South of the Republic of Mordovia in Russia. ...

SIL code: MYV

ISO 639-2: fiu

Alphabet: А/а, Б/б, В/в, Г/г, Д/д, Е/е, Ё/ё, Ж/ж, З/з, И/и, Й/й, К/к, Л/л, М/м, Н/н, О/о, П/п, Р/р, С/с, Т/т, У/у, Ф/ф, Х/х, Ц/ц, Ч/ч, Ш/ш, Щ/щ, Ъ/ъ, Ы/ы, Ь/ь, Э/э, Ю/ю, Я/я SIL International is a non-profit, Christian, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ...

Categories: Language stubs | Finno-Ugric languages | Languages of Russia

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Thesis: Person in Erzya (myv) (8826 words)
	The Erzya language, also known as Erza or Erzia Mordvin, belongs to the Uralic language family and is spoken by approximately half a million people, who are mainly settled in the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation, i.e.
	The Erzya language, as a member of the Uralic language family and subclass Volgaic, is often overlooked in typological studies due to a dearth of extensive materials available.
	In Erzya, however, the absence of a present neutral copula verb and the variation between syntactic preterite I and morphological preterite II for representation of the copula person in the past are quite salient.

Erzya language at AllExperts (269 words)
	Erzya language (ÐÑÐ·ÑÐ½Ñ ÐÐµÐ»Ñ (Erzjanj Kelj)) 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.
	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 Finno-Ugric languages.

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