Erzya language

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For the sculptor see Stepan Erzya.

For population centers see Erzya Oblasts.

For names in literature see Erzya writers.

Erzya Эрзянь Кель
Spoken in:	Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Region:	Mordovia, Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Penza, Saratov, Orenburg, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan
Total speakers:	~500,000
Language family:	Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-permic Finno-Volgaic Mordvinic Erzya
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`myv`
ISO 639-3:	`myv`
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

Erzya language (Эрзянь Кель (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. A diaspora can also be found in Armenia, Estonia, Kazakhstan and the 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 Finno-Ugric languages. Erzya is closely related to Moksha, but is distinct in its phonetics, morphology and vocabulary.

SIL code: MYV

ISO 639-2: myv

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

[edit] 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): [1]
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 langauages

[edit] Bibliography

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.

Finno-Ugric languages
Ugric	Hungarian \| Khanty \| Mansi
Permic	Komi \| Komi-Permyak \| Udmurt
Finno-Volgaic	Mari \| Erzya \| Moksha \| Merya† \| Meshcherian† \| Muromian†
Sami	Akkala Sami† \| Inari Sami \| Kemi Sami† \| Kildin Sami \| Lule Sami \| Northern Sami \| Pite Sami \| Skolt Sami \| Southern Sami \| Ter Sami \| Ume Sami
Baltic-Finnic	Estonian \| Finnish \| Ingrian \| Karelian \| Kven \| Livonian \| Ludic \| Meänkieli \| South Estonian \| Veps \| Votic \| Võro † denotes extinct