Erzya
Uralic language spoken in Russia
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Summary
Erzya is a natural language[1]. Erzya draws 2,347 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #189 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Mordovia[3]
- Country: Russia[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Mordvinic[6]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[7]
- Commons category: Erzya language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: myv[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Erzya language[10]
- Described at URL: https://uralic.clld.org/languages/20[11]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 96,860[12], 36,700[13]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14]
- Native label: Эрзянь кель[15]
- Short name: erzyanca[16], эрзянский[17], эрзянская[18], эрзяйаг[19]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[20]
- Indigenous to: Orenburg Oblast[21], Samara Oblast[22], Saratov Oblast[23], Ulyanovsk Oblast[24]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[25]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[26], nominative–accusative language[27], agglutinative language[28], stress[29]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Erzya-language films[30]
Why It Matters
Erzya has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Erzya is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]