Erzya language

( Эрзянь кель / Ersjan ' Article ')

Spoken in

• Uralic Finno - Ugric Volga Finnish Mordvin ( Ersja )

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The Ersja - Mordvinian ( ersjan. эрзянь / ersjan ' ) is one of the two main dialects of Mordovia language, which belongs to the Volga- Finnish group of the Finno -Ugric languages. It is also written Ersa Mordvin.

The exact number of speakers for the Ersja - Mordvinian is not to give an accurate figure for the entire Mordvinian it is approximately 750,000, with the Ersjanische occupies the lion's share with about 500,000 speakers. However, especially young people poorly or not proficient in the cities of their native language. Since the school is usually confined only in the Russian language, have the children whose mother tongue is Ersja or Moksha - Mordvin, little chance to develop their native language literary. The number of speakers decreases continuously. In the long run the two Mordvinian languages ​​could be so threatened with extinction.

As part of the Joint Programme " Minorities in Russia: Developing Culture, Language, Media and Civil Society " of Europe, the European Commission and Russia were submitted four project applications in Mordovia, aimed at promoting the ersjanischen and mokschanischen language to the target.

Special features of the Ersjanischen

While most of the Finno- Ugric languages ​​have a variety of vowel phonemes, has the Ersjanische only a, e, i, o and u. Vowels are generally spoken briefly, as has the Ersjanische no diphthongs on.

In contrast to Mokschanischen and most other Finno- Ugric languages ​​, the emphasis is often on other syllables than on the first. The Ersjanische has eleven case and uses different suffixes Possessivbildung than the Mokschanische.