Everything about Erzya Language totally explained
Erzya language (Эрзянь Кель (Erzjanj Kelj)) is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of
Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in
Russia. A diaspora can also be found in
Armenia,
Estonia,
Kazakhstan and the other newly independent states of
Central Asia. Erzya is currently written using the
Cyrillic alphabet with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. In Mordovia, Erzya is co-official with
Moksha and Russian.
The language belongs to the
Mordvinic branch of
Finno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of the
Finno-Ugric languages. Erzya is closely related to Moksha, but is distinct in its phonetics, morphology and vocabulary.
» SIL code: MYV
ISO 639-2: myv
Latin alphabet (officially approved by government of Nizhne-Volzhskiy kray in 1932, but was never used) a в c ç d ә e f g y i j k l m n o p r s ş t u v x z ƶ ь
Modern cyrillic alphabet: А/а, Б/б, В/в, Г/г, Д/д, Е/е, Ё/ё, Ж/ж, З/з, И/и, Й/й, К/к, Л/л, М/м, Н/н, О/о, П/п, Р/р, С/с, Т/т, У/у, Ф/ф, Х/х, Ц/ц, Ч/ч, Ш/ш, Щ/щ, Ъ/ъ, Ы/ы, Ь/ь, Э/э, Ю/ю, Я/я
| Letter |
Sound |
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А а |
[a] |
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Б б |
[b] |
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В в |
[v][w] |
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Г г |
[g] |
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Д д |
[d] |
|
Е е |
[je] |
|
Ё ё |
[jo] |
|
Ж ж |
[ʒ] |
|
З з |
[z] |
|
И и |
[i] |
|
Й й |
[j] |
|
К к |
[k] |
|
Л л |
[l] |
|
М м |
[m] |
|
Н н |
[n] |
|
О о |
[o] |
|
П п |
[p] |
|
Р р |
[r] |
|
С с |
[s] |
|
Т т |
[t] |
|
У у |
[u] |
|
Ф ф |
[f] |
|
Х х |
[h] |
|
Ц ц |
[ts] |
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Ч ч |
[ʧ] |
|
Ш ш |
[ʃ] |
|
Щ щ |
[ʃʧ] |
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Ъ ъ |
hard sign |
|
Ы ы |
[ï] |
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Ь ь |
soft sign |
|
Э э |
[e] |
|
Ю ю |
[ju] |
|
Я я |
[ja], [jä] |
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