Merya language

Merya language

Infobox Language
name=Merya
nativename=
familycolor=Uralic
states=Russia
region=Merya
nation=extinct
speakers=extinct
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
fam3=Finno-permic
fam4=Finno-Volgaic
fam5=
iso2=
iso3=

The Merya language was the Finno-Ugric language [cite book |title=The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History |last=Wieczynski |first=Joseph |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1976 |publisher=Academic International Press, |location= |isbn=9780875690643 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Merian+and+Muromian%2C+belong+to+the+so-called+Volga+branch+of+the+Finno-Ugric+languages%22&btnG=Search+Books] spoken by the Merya tribe, which lived in what is today the Yaroslavl region northwest to Moscow (near Rostov Veliky and Pereslavl-Zalessky). Very little is known about the language except for a few lexical and toponymic items identified as possibly being of Merya origin. It probably became extinct during the Middle Ages around 1000 AD [cite book |title=Language Death and Language Maintenance |last=Janse |first=Mark |authorlink= |coauthors=Sijmen Tol, Vincent Hendriks |year=2000 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |location= |isbn=9789027247520 |pages=PA108 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=JdzVePSApMgC&pg=PA108 ] , as the Meryas were assimilated by the Slavs.

Merya language was probably related to the other Finno-Ugric languages of the adjacent region, although its exact position within the Finno-Ugric language group remains debatable. Originally it was believed that Merya was closely related to Mari, but this view has recently been challenged and an affiliation with the Northwestern Finnic languages, including Balto-Finnic and Saamic, has been explained as more likely [cite book |title=The Slavicization of the Russian North |last=Nuorluoto |first=Juhani |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2006 |publisher=Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures |location= |isbn=9789521028526 |pages= |url=http://www.slav.helsinki.fi/nwrussia/eng/Conference/pdf/Helimski.pdf ]

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