Mordvins
Sign in to saveMordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.
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Mordvins is an official Russian term that refers to two distinct ethnic groups, the Erzyas and Mokshas, and has been used this way in Russia and the Soviet Union since 1928. The term matters because it represents how these two separate peoples have been officially categorized and identified by the state, even though their own languages don't have an equivalent word for this broader grouping.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.native_name
- мордовский народ
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- ru
- Ethnic group.group
- Erzya and Moksha Mordvins
- Ethnic group.total
- 806,000
- Ethnic group.total_year
- 2010
- Ethnic group.total_source
- 2010 Russian census
- Ethnic group.region1
- 290,750 (2021)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 484,450 (2021)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Majority: 15px Orthodox Christianity Minority: 15px Mordvin Native Religion Molokans and Jumpers
- Ethnic group.languages
- Primarily Russian, also Erzya, Moksha
- Ethnic group.related
- Uralic peoples (Mari, Permians, Mansi, Khanty, Finns, Samoyeds, Sámi, Estonians, Hungarians); Soviet peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Azerbaijani, Armenians, Georgians, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmens, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians)
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26 sectionsContents
- Names
- Early references
- Etymologies
- Restoration of Erzya and Moksha ethnonyms
- History
- Prehistory
- Medieval and early modern history
- Modern history
- Languages
- Reconstruction of ''Mordvin'' language
- Classification
- Ethnic structure
- Demographics
- Cultures, folklores and mythologies
- Religion
- National representative bodies
- Genetics
- Appearance
- List of notable Mordvins
- Erzyans
- Mokshans
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.
==Names== thumb|Mordva populi (Mordva people) shown on a 1550 map by Giacomo Gastaldi as residing south of [[Kasimov and Nizhny Novgorod]]