Erzya
Facts
- Language: Erzya
- Alternate names: Erzia, Mordvin, Mordvin-Erzya
- Language code: myv
- Language family: Uralic, Mordvin
- Number of speakers: 514330
- Script: Cyrillic script.
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Introduction
The Erzya language, or Erzian, is spoken by about 37,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. In Mordovia, Erzya is co-official with Moksha and Russian.
The Erzya Verb
Verbs are marked for tense, mood, person and number.- Mood: indicative, conditional, conjunctive, conditional-conjunctive, desiderative, optative, and imperative.
- Tense: present/future, first/second past.
- Number: singular and plural.
- Person: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Verblist
- аволдавомс
- аволдавтомс
- аволдакшномс
- аволдамс
- аволямс
- автемс
- андомс
- варамс
- вельмемс
- каломс
- куломс
- кулсемс
- култаемс
- мевтямс
- наркодевемс
- наркодемс
- озамс
- паломс
- паскомс
- повамс
- потявтомс
- сёрмацтомс
- саламс
- содомс
- чувтомомс
- эрямс
- якамс
- янгамс
- ярсамс