Moksha
language part of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages and the majority language in the western part of Mordovia
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Summary
Moksha is a natural language[1]. Moksha draws 1,589 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #216 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Mordvinic[5]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[6]
- Commons category: Moksha language[7]
- Wikimedia language code: mdf[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Moksha language[9]
- Described at URL: https://uralic.clld.org/languages/21[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2025[11]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12]
- Native label: Мокшень кяль[13]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[14]
- Indigenous to: Mordovia[15], Nizhny Novgorod Oblast[16], Penza Oblast[17], Tatarstan[18], Bashkortostan[19], Samara Oblast[20], Saratov Oblast[21], Orenburg Oblast[22], Ryazan Oblast[23], Tambov Oblast[24]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MDF[25]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[26]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[27], subject–object–verb[28], nominative–accusative language[29], agglutinative language[30]
Why It Matters
Moksha has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Moksha is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]