Mordovia

Erzya / Moksha


Mordovia - Mordvin

The Mordvins are the inhabitants of Mordvinia or Mordovia. They have two names for themselves: Erzya and Moksha. Both groups have their ethnic identity, even though statistics never make a distinction between the two. Both Erzya and Moksha are used as literary languages, with the same alphabet. In the Republic of Mordovia (26 200 sq. km., capital city Saransk) only 32.5% were Mordvins in 1989. Moreover, only 27.2% of the Mordvins live in Mordovia. Most of the Mordvins are dwelled in groups in the provinces of Samara, Penza, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk and Nizhni-Novgorod, partly also in Central Asia and Siberia. Of 1,153,987 mordvins in 1989, 67% were Erzya or Moksha speakers. Moksha and Erzya are close Uralic languages, and their self-designations are Erzjanj Kelj and Moksenj Kälj.
 

See the other tables from the former Soviet Union, especially that for Uralic nations.

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Mordovija - Erzjanj Kelj / Moksenj Kälj

Mordovia edo Mordvinia errepublikako jatorrizko biztanleak, mordvinak, egiazki bi hizkuntza uraliko hurbileko bi talde etniko desberdin dira: Erzia and Mokxa herriak. Bi identitate, baina estatistika sobietar eta errusiarrean, sekula ez dituzte bereizten. Mordovian (26.200 km2, hiriburua Saransk) bakarrik %32.5 ziren Erzia eta Mokxa 1989an. Gainera, mordvinen %27.2 baizik ez da bizi Mordovian. Gehienak inguruko erregioetan bizi dira. 1989an 1,1 milioi mordvin zegoen Errusian, eta %67 ziren horien artean Erzia edo Mokxa hiztunak. Hizkuntza bion jatorrizko izenak: Erzjanj Kelj eta Mokssenj Kälj

Sobiet Batasuneko beste herri batzuk hemen. Ikus bereziki nazio Uralikoen taula.

 


Regarding spellings, we use some conventions as shown in this table below [Check also the Glossary of Diacritics]:

Names appear transliterated from their ciryllic scripts here [Erzya and Moksha use identical scripts],, following international standards, with some additional conventions used in GeoNative, as it is shown below:

Idazkerari dagokionez, beheko taulako egokitzapenak egin ditugu orri honetarako. [ikus halaber zeinu Diakritikoen hiztegia]:

Izenak alfabeto zirilikotik transliteratuak ageri dira hemen [Erzya eta Mokxa hizkuntzek alfabeto eta transliterazio bera dute], nazioarteko estandarren arabera (GeoNativerako hartutako konbentzio batzuekin), jarraian ageri den bezala:



Russian

Erzyan / Moksha

Mordovija (republic)

Mordovija

Alatyr' (in Chuvashia)

Rator os

Ardatov

Ordanjbuje

Atjasevo

Otjazelje

Babeevo

Babejevo

Barasevo

Boraz-velje

Boldovo

Boldu-velje

Bol'soe Ignatovo

Ignadvelje

Camzinka

Caunza

Dubënki

Dubinjka

El'niki

Jeljniki

Insar

Insar

Javas

Javas

Kadoskino

Kadoskino

Kemlja

Kemlja

Kocelaevo

Kocjadu, Kacjalaj

Kockurovo

Kockur-velje

Kovylkino

Kovylkino

Kozlovka

Kozlovka

Krasnoslobodsk

Krasnoslobodsk

Ljambir'

Ljambir'

Mel'cany

Meljcany

Novye Vyselki

Bznovka

Pan'za

Panjza

Parakino

Parynzelje, Verje Paronza

Purdoski

Purdoski

Romodanovo

Romodanovo

Ruzaevka

Ruzajevka

Rybkino

Rjba-velje

Saransk

Saran os

Siringusi

Siringusi

Siskeevo

Siskejevo

Staroe Sajgovo

Sirje Sajgav

Temnikov

Tjemnikov

Ten'gusevo

Tjenjgzvelje

Torbeevo

Torbejeva

Troick

Troick

Umët

Umjot

Volga (river)

Rav (Erzya) / Rava (Moksha)

Vysa

Vysa

Zubova Poljana

Zubu

Erzya and Moksha placenames are most of the times coincidental - Izenak berdinak izan ohi dira gehienetan Erzia eta Mokxa hizkuntzetan.



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Mapak beste leiho batean irekiko zaizkizu.
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Mordoviako mapa finlandiar zahar bat, 30eko hamarkadakoa
Old Finnish 30's map of Mordovia


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