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Moksha
мокшень кяль
Spoken in: Russia
Total speakers: ~500,000
Language family: Uralic
 Finno-Ugric
  Finno-permic
   Finno-Volgaic
    Mordvinic
     Moksha 
Official status
Official language in: Mordovia (Russia)
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: mdf
ISO 639-3: mdf
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Uralic languages (jʊˈrælɨk constitute a language family of 39 Languages spoken by approximately 20 million people Finno-Ugric (ˌfɪnoʊˈjuːgɹɪk is a grouping of languages in the Uralic language family comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and The Finno-Permic languages form one of the main branches of the Finno-Ugric languages that split from it around 2500 - 3000 BC Finno-Volgaic is a subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages that split from Finno-Permic languages about 2000 BC containing nowadays Baltic-Finnic languages, The Mordvinic languages are a subgroup of the Volga-Finnic languages. Republic of Mordovia (Респу́блика Мордо́вия Moksha / Erzya: Мордовия Республикась or Mordvinia is a federal Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending This is a list of bodies that regulate Standard languages Natural languages Auxiliary languages Interlingua The auxiliary language ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's

The Moksha language (Moksha), мокшень кяль (mokshanj kälj) is the language of Moksha spoken in the western part of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions. Republic of Mordovia (Респу́блика Мордо́вия Moksha / Erzya: Мордовия Республикась or Mordvinia is a federal

There are presently 6 distinct dialects of Moksha: Central, Western (or Zubu dialect), South-Western, Northern, South-Eastern and Southern. The number of speakers is around 500,000.

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Writing system

Mokshan logographic script is now obsolete writing system based on glyphs representing objects, concepts, activity, places or events. A glyph is an element of writing Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol whether interchangeable or context-dependent are called Allographs the abstract unit they It was in use before Christianization and remained popular till the beginning of XX century.

Obsolete Mokshan writing system glyphs
Obsolete Mokshan writing system glyphs

Mokshan is currently using the Russian alphabet with spelling rules identical with that of Russian and as a consequence of that vowels e, ä, ə are not indicated in a consistent way. The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Latin alphabet for Moksha was officially approved by CIK VCKNA (General Executive Committee of All Union New Alphabet Central Committee) June, 25, 1932, but was never used.

The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of Finno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. The Mordvinic languages are a subgroup of the Volga-Finnic languages. Finno-Volgaic is a subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages that split from Finno-Permic languages about 2000 BC containing nowadays Baltic-Finnic languages, Finno-Ugric (ˌfɪnoʊˈjuːgɹɪk is a grouping of languages in the Uralic language family comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and It is related to the Erzya language, but is quite distinct in its phonetics, vocabulary and grammar. Erzya language (эрзянь кель is spoken by about 500000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent In Mordovia, Moksha is co-official with the Erzya language and Russian language. Erzya language (эрзянь кель is spoken by about 500000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages

SIL code: MDF
ISO 639-2: mdf

Pronunciation of the Cyrillic alphabet

Letter Sound
А а [a]
Б б [b]
В в [v]
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]

Literature

Before 1917 about 100 books and pamphlets mostly of religious character were published. Ethnologue Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics a Christian ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year More than 200 manuscripts including at least 50 wordlists were not printed. In 19th century the Russian Orthodox Missionary Society in Kazan published Mokshan primers and elementary textbooks of Russian language for Mokshas. Kazan (Каза́нь Казан tt Qazan) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities Among them were two fascicles with samples of Mokshan folk poetry. The great native scholar Makar Evsevyev collected Moksha folk songs published in one volume in 1897. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Under early Soviet rule dominated publishing of social and political literature. All books were being printed in Moscow till establishing Mordvinian national district in 1928. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Language conferences in 1928 an 1935 made north-west Moksha dialect the base for literary language. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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