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زبان ارزیا

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زبان ارزیا

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Also known as Erzya language, Erzyan language, Erzya-Mordvin

Uralic language spoken in Russia

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Erzya is a Uralic language spoken primarily in Russia, belonging to the same language family as Finnish and Hungarian. It matters because it represents an important part of linguistic and cultural diversity, though like many minority languages it faces challenges in the modern world.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Mordvinic
Country
Russia
Located in
Mordovia
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short name
эрзяйаг
Wikimedia language code
myv
writing system
Cyrillic script
native label
Эрзянь кель
number of speakers, writers, or signers
36700
indigenous to
Ulyanovsk Oblast
topic's main category
Category:Erzya language
Commons category
Erzya language
linguistic typology
stress
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