Meshcherian language

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Meshcherian
Spoken in: Russia 
Region: Meshchera
Total speakers: extinct
Language family: Uralic
 Finno-Ugric
  Finno-permic
   Finno-Volgaic
    Meshcherian 
Official status
Official language in: >
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
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Meshcherian was the Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Meshchera tribe, in what is today the Oka River basin in Russia. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya. Meshcherian was probably extinct by the 16th century.

An approximative map of the non-Varangian cultures in European Russia, in the 9th century. The Meshcherian area is shown in red
An approximative map of the non-Varangian cultures in European Russia, in the 9th century. The Meshcherian area is shown in red