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Mordvinic languages

Pair of Uralic languages of Russia

Summary

Pair of Uralic languages of Russia

Field	Value
name	Mordvinic
region	Southwestern and Southeastern Russia
ethnicity	Mordvins
familycolor	Uralic
child1	Erzya
child2	Moksha
child3	Meshchera? †
child4	Muromian? †
glotto	mord1256
glottorefname	Mordvin
map	3-Mordvin.png
mapcaption	Mordvin languages at the beginning of the 20th century
speakers
ref
date	2021 census

The Mordvinic languages,{{cite book |title=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics |last=Bright |first=William are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language, both spoken in Mordovia.{{cite book

Previously considered a single "Mordvin language",{{cite book it is now treated as a small language grouping. Due to differences in phonology, lexicon, and grammar, Erzya and Moksha are not mutually intelligible. The two Mordvinic languages also have separate literary forms. The Erzya literary language was created in 1922 and the Mokshan in 1923.{{cite book

Phonological differences between the two languages include:

Moksha retains a distinction between the vowels while in Erzya, they have merged as .
In unstressed syllables, Erzya features vowel harmony like many other Uralic languages, using in front-vocalic words and in back-vocalic words. Moksha has a simple schwa in their place.
Word-initially, Erzya has a postalveolar affricate corresponding to a fricative in Moksha.
Next to voiceless consonants, liquids and the semivowel are devoiced in Moksha to .

The medieval Meshcherian language may have been Mordvinic or close to Mordvinic.

Classification

Dialects of Moksha and Erzya languages in the Republic of Mordovia

M-I Central group
M-II Western group
M-III Southeast group
E-I Central group
E-II Western group
E-III Northwestern group
E-IV Southeast group
E-V Shoksha dialect]]

Traditionally, Uralicists grouped the Mordvinic and Mari languages together in the so-called Volgaic branch of the Uralic family; this view was however abandoned in the late 20th century. Instead, some Uralicists now prefer a rapid expansion model, with Mordvinic as one out of nine primary branches of Uralic; others propose a close relation between Mordvinic with the Finnic and Saamic branches of Uralic.

References

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Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). ''Geographical database of the Uralic languages'' (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
"Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года".
[https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Mordvin%20languages%22 Mordvin languages @ google books]
(2022). "The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages". Oxford University Press.
Феоктистов А. П. Мордовские языки. основы финно-угорского языкознания. Прибалтийско-финские, саамский и мордовские языки. М., 1975
Janse, Mark. (2000). "Language Death and Language Maintenance". John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Abondolo, Daniel. (1988). "The Uralic Languages". Routledge.
Nichols, Johanna. (2021). "The Origin and Dispersal of Uralic: Distributional Typological View". Annual Review of Linguistics.
Saarikivi, Janne. (2022). "The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages". Oxford University Press.
Piispanen, Peter S.. (2016). "Statistical Dating of Finno-Mordvinic Languages through Comparative Linguistics and Sound Laws". Fenno-Ugrica Suecana Nova Series. 15.

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