Frederic P Miller

Mordvins Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mordvins are among the larger indigenous peoples of Russia. They speak languages of the Finno-Volgaic branch of the Uralic language family. They consist of two major subgroups[citation needed], the Erzya and Moksha, besides the smaller subgroups of the Qaratay, Teryukhan and Tengushev (or Shoksha) Mordvins who have become fully Russified or Turkified during the 19th to 20th centuries. Less than one third of Mordvins live in the autonomous republic of Mordovia, Russian Federation, in the basin of the Volga River. The rest are scattered over the Russian oblasts of Samara, Penza, Orenburg and Nizhni Novgorod, as well as Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Bashkortostan, Central Asia, Siberia, Far East, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the USA. The Erzya Mordvins (Erzya:, Erzyat; also Erzia, Erza), who speak Erzya, and the Moksha Mordvins (Moksha:, Mokshet), who speak Moksha, are the two major groups. The Qaratay Mordvins live in Kama Tama District of Tatarstan, and have shifted to speaking Tatar, albeit with a large proportion of Mordvin vocabulary (substratum). The Teryukhan, living in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia, switched to Russian in the 19th century.