The Mordvins (Mordva) are a people who speak languages of the Finno-Permic branch of the Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). Also shown are the Samoyedic and Yukaghir languages (after Ruhlen, 1987) The Finno-Ugric languages form a subfamily of the Uralic languages. The majority of linguists believe that Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian, among other languages, should be included... Finno-Ugric language family.

Less than one third of Mordvins live in the autonomous republic of The Republic of Mordovia (Russian: Респу́блика Мордо́вия, Mordvinian: Мордовскяй Республикась) is a... Mordovia, The Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches... Russian Federation, in the basin of the Volga redirects here. For other uses, see The name Volga can refer to a number of different things: The Volga River (Волга, Rha, İtil, İdel) in western Russia is the longest river in Europe. Volga (automobiles) is the name of a Russian brand of... Volga River. The rest are scattered over the Russian An oblast (Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть) is a name for the subnational entity of Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union and the mentioned post-Soviet republics, oblasts are one step below the national level and further subdivided... oblasts of Samara (fruit) — a type of winged tree fruit Samara, Russia — a large city to the east of the Volga River. Samara River — a river in Russia, left tributary of the Volga River. Lada Samara — a model of Lada automobile named after the city. Samarra — a... Samara, Penza (Пе́нза) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Penza Oblast in the Volga Federal District. It stands on the Sura River, 709 km south-east of Moscow. Penza was founded in 1663 as a frontier outpost on the then southeastern border of Russia... Penza, Orenburg (Оренбу́рг) is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia. It lies 1478 km south of Moscow. The city had a population of approximately 548,800 as of the... Orenburg and Nizhny Novgorod coat of arms Area  - Total 260,000 mi² Population  - City (2003)  - Metropolitan 1,334,249 2 million approx. Time zone Moscow: UTC+3 Latitude Longitude 56°20 N 44°00 E Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́в... Nizhni Novgorod, as well as A new page based on the new template is being worked on at Tatarstan/Temp, please make any changes you want to make on that page. Tatarstan (Russian: Респу́блика Татарста́н; Tatar... Tatarstan, Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast A landlocked country is one that has no coastline. There are 42 landlocked countries in the world. A landlocked sea is a sea... Central Asia and Siberian Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(ы); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. subyekt). These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house... Siberia.

The Mordvins consist of two groups: Erzya Mordvins, who speak Erzya (Эрзянь Кель (Erzjanj Kelj)) is spoken in the northern part of the republic of Mordovia in Russia. It is spoken by about 500,000 people. It is currently written using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. In Mordovia, it is co-official with... Erzya, and 'Moksha Mordvins, who speak The Moksha language is spoken mostly in South of the Republic of Mordovia in Russia. The number of speakers is around 400,000 and declining. It is currently written using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. In Mordovia, it is co-official with the Erzya language and Russian. The language belongs to... Moksha. Both prefer to call themselves Moksha and Erzä, usually don't recognize Mordva term, appologize themselves as different peoples.

The Qaratays are an ethnic group within Mordvins in Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan around Mordva Qaratay village. They speak Tatar complemented by Mordvin words, sometimes considered as Qaratay Dialect of Kazan Tatar language. Their ancestors were Finno-Ugric tribes who lived on the territory of contemporary Tatarstan and were assimilated by... Qaratay Mordvin ethnic group live in Kama Tamağı District of A new page based on the new template is being worked on at Tatarstan/Temp, please make any changes you want to make on that page. Tatarstan (Russian: Респу́блика Татарста́н; Tatar... Tatarstan, and speak Tatar (Tatar tele/Tatarça) Spoken in: Idel-Ural, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, China, Finland, former Soviet Union Region: Eastern Europe, Central Asia Total speakers: 8 million Ranking: 95 Genetic classification: Ural-Altaic languages (disputed) Altaic languages (disputed)  Turkic languages   Northwestern (Kipchak-Bolghar)    Uralian  ... Tatar, but with a large proportion of Mordvin vocabulary.

Another Mordva group (Teryukhan), living in Nizhni Novgorod Oblast of Russia speak pure Russian (русский язык) Spoken in: The Russian Federation ( Russian (русский язык) Spoken in: Russia and many other countries Region: Eastern Europe and Asia Total speakers: 280 million Ranking: 4-7 Genetic classification... Russian since 19th century.

Both of this group recognize Mordva term for themselves.

Since These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. The individual century pages contain lists of decades and years. See history for different organizations of historical events. See Calendar and List of calendars for other groupings of years. For earlier time periods see cosmological timeline, geologic timescale, evolutionary timeline, pleistocene... 1950s their numbers, their presence in Mordovia, and their knowledge of their mother tongues has decreased. In 2003 is a This is the calendar for a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E), e.g. 2003. (A common year is a year with 365 days — in other words, not a leap year.) January Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4... 2003 there were around 1,054,000 Mordvins.

• List of Mordvins

External link

• Library of Congress: Mordvins (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sutoc.html), the initial text is based on this reference