Moksha language

Moksha мокшень кяль
Spoken in:	Russia
Region:	Mordovia
Total speakers:	~500,000
Language family:	Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-permic Finno-Volgaic Mordvinic Moksha
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`fiu`
ISO 639-3:	`fiu`
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The Mokshan language (Moksha), мокшень кяль (mokshanj kälj) is spoken in the western part of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent Penza, Ryazan, Tambov, Saratov, Samara, Orenburg oblasts, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan republics, Siberia, Far East of Russia and also in Armenia and USA. The number of speakers is around 500,000.

[edit] Writing system

It is currently written using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language and Latin alphabet. In Mordovia, it is co-official with the Erzya language and Russian language.

The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of Finno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. It is related to the Erzya language, but is quite distinct in its phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.

Cyrillic 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

Latin Alphabet: Aa, Ää, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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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