Meshcherian language
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Meshcherian | ||
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Spoken in: | Russia | |
Region: | Meshchera | |
Total speakers: | extinct | |
Language family: | Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-permic Finno-Volgaic Meshcherian |
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Official language in: | > | |
Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
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ISO 639-3: | – | |
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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.
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