Erzya

Uralic language spoken in Russia

Details

Instance of: natural language, modern language
Subclass of: Mordvinic
Located in: Mordovia
Country: Russia
category for films in this language: Category:Erzya-language films
described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing
indigenous to: Orenburg Oblast, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast
linguistic typology: subject–object–verb, nominative–accusative language, agglutinative language, stress
native label: Эрзянь кель
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 96860, 36700
short name: erzyanca, эрзянский, эрзянская, эрзяйаг
topic's main category: Category:Erzya language
UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered
Wikimedia language code: myv
writing system: Cyrillic script