The Volga-Finnic languages, also referred to as Volgaic are a subgroup of the Uralic languages , the languages of Volga Finns. The group contains Mari language and Mordvinic languages, which in turn comprises Moksha language and Erzya language.... . It comprises the Erzya language
Erzya language
Erzya language 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.... and Moksha language
Moksha language
The Moksha language is a Volga-Finnic languages with about 500,000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia and spoken by Moksha people worldwide.... .
Both Mordvinic languages have their own literary forms. The Erzya literary language
Literary language
A literary language is a register of a language that is used in literary writing. This may also include Sacred language. The difference between literary and non-literary forms is more marked in some languages than in others.... was created in 1922 and the Mokshan in 1923.
The Mordvinic languages are also referred to as Mordvinian Languages the official Russian term for the language pair . Also as Mordvin languages and in single form Mordvin language.
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The Volga-Finnic languages, also referred to as Volgaic are a subgroup of the Uralic languages , the languages of Volga Finns. The group contains Mari language and Mordvinic languages, which in turn comprises Moksha language and Erzya language.... . It comprises the Erzya language
Erzya language
Erzya language 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.... and Moksha language
Moksha language
The Moksha language is a Volga-Finnic languages with about 500,000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia and spoken by Moksha people worldwide.... .
Both Mordvinic languages have their own literary forms. The Erzya literary language
Literary language
A literary language is a register of a language that is used in literary writing. This may also include Sacred language. The difference between literary and non-literary forms is more marked in some languages than in others.... was created in 1922 and the Mokshan in 1923.
The Mordvinic languages are also referred to as Mordvinian Languages the official Russian term for the language pair . Also as Mordvin languages and in single form Mordvin language. The single form sometimes denotes it as being actually two distinct languages unintelligible to an extent that Russian language is used for the intergroup communications. In other cases the Mordvin language is described as consisting of 2 dialects: Erzya and Moksha that have developed separate literary languages due to differences in phonology
Phonology
Phonology is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. Just as a language has syntax and vocabulary, it also has a phonology in the sense of a sound system.... , lexicon
Lexicon
In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes.... and grammar
Grammar
Grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions governing the use of any given natural language. It includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.... .
