| Mokshans |
|---|
| Total population |
|
~800.000 |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Russia Mordovia, Penza Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tatarstan, Saratov Oblast Armenia, Estonia, Finland, |
| Language(s) |
| Moksha, Russian |
| Religion(s) |
| Russian Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Mokshan Traditional Belief |
| Related ethnic groups |
| other Finno-Ugric peoples |
The Mokshans (Moksha people), (Moksha: Мокшет/Mokshat), indigenous Finno-Volgaic population of Middle Volga. Mokshans are typical Caucasians with North-Pontic racial type predominance. Mokshan (Moksha) is one of the Finno-Volgaic, branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. Close languages are Erzya and Mari.
Less than one second of Mokshans 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, as well as Tatarstan, Siberia, Far East,
Armenia and
The Qaratay Moksha ethnic group live in Kama Tamağı District of Tatarstan, and have shifted to speaking Tatar, albeit with a large proportion of old Mokshan vocabulary (substratum). The Qaratay call themselves Muksha.
Since 1950s the number of Mokshas in Mordovia, and their knowledge of their mother tongues has decreased due to bilingualism.
List of notable Mokshans
- Tyushtya, the Great Mokshan and Erzyan King
- Solovey, famous Mokshan prince
- Puresh, XII c AD, Mokshan king
- Narchatka, Mokshan princess
- Zakhar Dorofeev, (1890-1952), Mokshan poet, scientist
- Avksentiy Yurtov, Mokshan linguist, scientist
- I.G. Cherapkin, Mokshan linguist scientist
- Kirill Samorodov, Mokshan writer, translator
- Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev, (1917-2002) WWII hero, escaped from Peenemunde prisoner of war camp by plane
- Aleksey Mokshoni, (1898-1971), Mokshan writer
- Aleksandr Malkin, (1923-2003), Mokshan poet
- Petr Levchaev, (1913-2003), Mokshan poet, writer
- Vasiliy Viard, Mokshan writer
- Vasiliy Radin, (1923), Mokshan writer
- Yakov Piniasov, Mokshan writer, playwright
- Maksim Beban, Mokshan writer, poet, translator
- Anatoliy Tyapaev, (1928), Mokshan writer, playwright
- Alexander Feoktistov, (1928), Professor, scientist
- Vasiliy Elmeev, Saint Petersburg University Professor
- Ivan Pudin, Mokshan writer, dramatist
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List of Mokshan papers
- Moksha (literature, culture)
- Mokshen pravda (newspaper)
- Yakster Tyashtenya (for children)
External links
General
- Info-RM Mordovia republic news in Moksha language
- [1] Finno-Ugric World news, articles in Mokshan
- [2] Mokshan-English-Mokshan on-line dictionary
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