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Europe and North Asia
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~250,000

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Central Russia

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Location description

Spoken mainly in the western parts of the Republic of Mordovia in the Russian Federation, and in the adjacent parts of Ryazan’ and Penza provinces; also in pockets in Tatarstan and Orenburg Province

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Spoken mainly in the western parts of the Republic of Mordovia in the Russian Federation, and in the adjacent parts of Ryazan’ and Penza provinces; also in pockets in Tatarstan and Orenburg Province

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~500,000

Domains of Use

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"Statistically, there has been a marked fall in the Erzya population. Based on data from the latest All-Russian census (2002) the “Mordvin” population is recorded as 0.84 million. If we adhere to the commonly held belief that the Erzya comprise two-thirds of that total, or a generous half a million people, we will arrive at the equivalent of a native-speakers’ figure... A slightly higher figure is provided by the Ethnologue report online with a world-wide Erzya population of 696,630."

Year of info

2010

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic

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Russian

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"As a minority in a republic in close proximity to the nation's capital, the Erzya have continually been faced with assimilative pressure... In the 1990s and beginning of the new millennium, first-language instruction for subjects other than the native language became an issue. What started out in village primary schools brought about a new trend in publication practices, and now use of other new media is spreading, i.e. the scattered population of Erzya speakers actively utilize services offered by mobile phones and the Internet in Erzya. The publication of readers in environmental studies and mathematics has been announced for the lower grades, as well as a complete curriculum for Erzya language in the primary and secondary schools."

At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

400,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

54.1302,45.4394

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Native Speakers Worldwide

696,630

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Second-language speakers and learners

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614,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Population total all countries: 696,630

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Kyrgyzstan; Ukraine; Azerbaijan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Russia;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

53.0,45.5

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At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

517,575

Domains of Use

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Child speakers

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  1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  2. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  3. Europe and North Asia
    Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
  4. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  6. Grammatika Mordovskix (Mokshanskogo i Erzjanskogo) jazykov
    Zavodova, R. A. and M. N. Koljadenkov. 1964. "Grammatika Mordovskix (Mokshanskogo I Erzjanskogo) Jazykov." Saransk.
  7. Mordva
    Zaicz Gábor. 1998. "Mordva." In The Uralic Languages, edited by Daniel Abondolo. 184-218. Routledge.
  8. Èrzjanskij jazyk
    Feoktistov, A. K. 1966. "Èrzjanskij Jazyk." In Jazyki narodov SSSR. Volume 3: Finno-ugorskie i samodijskie jazyki, edited by V. I. Lytkin and K. E. Majtinskaja. 177-189. Nauka.
  9. Erzjan' Kel', Morfologija
    Anonymous,. 2000. "Erzjan' Kel', Morfologija." edited by D. V. Cygankin. Krasnyj Oktjabr'.
  10. Grammatik der ersa-mordwinischen Sprache
    Wiedemann, F. J. 1865. "Grammatik Der Ersa-mordwinischen Sprache." Eggers.