Erzya language
- Erzya language
Infobox Language
name=Erzya
nativename=Эрзянь Кель
familycolor=Uralic
states=Russia ,Armenia ,Azerbaijan ,Estonia ,Kazakhstan ,Kyrgyzstan ,Turkmenistan ,Ukraine ,Uzbekistan
region=Mordovia , Nizhny Novgorod,Chuvashia , Ulyanovsk, Samara, Penza, Saratov, Orenburg,Tatarstan ,Bashkortostan
speakers=Ethnologue :inRussia 440,000worldwide 517,575
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
fam3=Finno-permic
fam4=Finno-Volgaic
fam5=Mordvinic
iso2=myv
iso3=myvErzya language "( _my. 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 inRussia . A diaspora can also be found inArmenia ,Estonia ,Kazakhstan and the other newly independent states ofCentral Asia . Erzya is currently written using theCyrillic 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 ofFinno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of theFinno-Ugric languages . Erzya is closely related to Moksha, but is distinct in its phonetics, morphology and vocabulary. :SIL code : MYV :ISO 639-2 : myvPhonology
Vowels
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 Unicode|ƶ ь
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Erzya people External links
*Finno-Ugric Electronic Library by the Finno-Ugric Information Center in
Syktyvkar ,Komi Republic (interface in Russian and English, texts in Mari, Komi, Udmurt, Erzya and Moksha languages): [http://library.finugor.ru/]
* [http://www.erzia.saransk.ru/ Erzjanj Mastor] - The society for preserving the Erzya language (in Erzya and Russian)
* http://www.info-rm.com/er/index.php News in the Erzya and Moksha Mordvinian languagesBibliography
*A.I. Bryzhinskiy, O.V. Pashutina, Ye.I. Chernov. Писатели Мордовии Биобиблиографический справочник. Saransk: Mordovskoye Knizhnoye Izdatelystvo, 2001. ISBN 5-7595-1386-9.
*Vasilij D'omin. Сюконян тенк... Эрзянь писательде ёвтнемат. Saransk, 2005. ISBN 5-7595-1665-5.
*Ksenija Djordjevic & Jean-Leo Leonard. Parlons Mordve. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006, ISBN 2-296-00147-5.
*D.V. Tsygankin. Память запечатленная в слове: Словарь географических названий республики Мордовия. Saransk, 2005. ISBN 5-7493-0780-8.
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