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 | Ethnologue:
in Russia 440,000 |
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| Language family | Uralic | |
| 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 (Erzya: эрзянь кель) is spoken by about 500,000 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 as well as in Kazakhstan and 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 Uralic languages. Erzya is closely related to Moksha, but is distinct in its phonetics, morphology and vocabulary.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
- Minimal pairs: "vishka" 'small' and "vɨshka" 'antenna'
"mirnesj" 'the little world' and "mɨrnesj" 'she meowed' "bɨznɨ" '[a bumblebee] buzzes' and "bizni" '[a mosquito] squeals'
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard | Soft | ||||||
| Nasals | /m/ | /n/ | /nʲ/ | ||||
| Plosives | Voiceless | /p/ | /t/ | /tʲ/ | /k/ | ||
| Voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /dʲ/ | /g/ | |||
| Affricates | Voiceless | /ts/ | /tsʲ/ | /tʃ/ | |||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | /f/ | /s/ | /sʲ/ | /ʃ/ | /x/ | |
| Voiced | /v/ | /z/ | /zʲ/ | /ʒ/ | |||
| Trills | /r/ | /rʲ/ | |||||
| Approximants | /l/ | /lʲ/ | /j/ | ||||
[edit] Writing
Modern Cyrillic alphabet is the same as for Russian language: 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.
A former version (pre-1927) of the Cyrillic alphabet Erzya employed included additional letters, for example, a schwa:[citation needed]
| А /a/ |
Б /b/ |
В /v/ |
Г /g/ |
Д /d/ |
Е /je/ |
Ё /jo/ |
Ж /ʒ/ |
З /z/ |
И /i/ |
Й /j/ |
К /k/ |
| Л /l/ |
М /m/ |
Н /n/ |
нг /ŋ/ |
О /o/ |
П /p/ |
Р /r/ |
С /s/ |
Т /t/ |
У /u/ |
Ф /f/ |
Х /x/ |
| Ц /t͡s/ |
Ч /t͡ʃ/ |
Ш /ʃ/ |
Щ /ʃt͡ʃ/ |
Ъ /-/ |
Ы [ɨ] |
Ь /◌ʲ/ |
Э /ɛ/ |
Ю /ju/ |
Я /ja/ |
ä /æ/ |
ə /ə/ |
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
[edit] See also
[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
- [2] Эрзянский язык
[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.
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