Erzya language
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| 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: | ~360,000 | |
| 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. | ||
Erzya language (Эрзянь Кель (Erzjanj Kelj)) is spoken by about 85,000 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.
Latin alphabet (officially approved by government of Nizhne-Volzhskiy kray in 1932, but was never used) a в c ç d ә e f g y i j k l m n o p r s ş t u v x z ƶ ь
Modern 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
| Letter | Sound | |
|---|---|---|
| А а | [a] | |
| Б б | [b] | |
| В в | [v][w] | |
| Г г | [g] | |
| Д д | [d] | |
| Е е | [je] | |
| Ё ё | [jo] | |
| Ж ж | [ʒ] | |
| З з | [z] | |
| И и | [i] | |
| Й й | [j] | |
| К к | [k] | |
| Л л | [l] | |
| М м | [m] | |
| Н н | [n] | |
| О о | [o] | |
| П п | [p] | |
| Р р | [r] | |
| С с | [s] | |
| Т т | [t] | |
| У у | [u] | |
| Ф ф | [f] | |
| Х х | [h] | |
| Ц ц | [ts] | |
| Ч ч | [ʧ] | |
| Ш ш | [ʃ] | |
| Щ щ | [ʃʧ] | |
| Ъ ъ | hard sign | |
| Ы ы | [ï] | |
| Ь ь | soft sign | |
| Э э | [e] | |
| Ю ю | [ju] | |
| Я я | [ja], [jä] |
[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 languages
[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 | ||
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