Mordvins

Also known as Mordvin, Mordvinian, Mordvinians, Mordovian, Mordovians

Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.

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Mordvins is an official Russian term that refers to two distinct ethnic groups, the Erzyas and Mokshas, and has been used this way in Russia and the Soviet Union since 1928. The term matters because it represents how these two separate peoples have been officially categorized and identified by the state, even though their own languages don't have an equivalent word for this broader grouping.

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Key facts

Ethnic group.native_name: мордовский народ
Ethnic group.native_name_lang: ru
Ethnic group.group: Erzya and Moksha Mordvins
Ethnic group.total: 806,000
Ethnic group.total_year: 2010
Ethnic group.total_source: 2010 Russian census
Ethnic group.region1: 290,750 (2021)
Ethnic group.pop1: 484,450 (2021)
Ethnic group.religions: Majority: 15px Orthodox Christianity Minority: 15px Mordvin Native Religion Molokans and Jumpers
Ethnic group.languages: Primarily Russian, also Erzya, Moksha
Ethnic group.related: Uralic peoples (Mari, Permians, Mansi, Khanty, Finns, Samoyeds, Sámi, Estonians, Hungarians); Soviet peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Azerbaijani, Armenians, Georgians, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmens, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians)

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Encyclopedic overview

26 sections

Contents

Names
Early references
Etymologies
Restoration of Erzya and Moksha ethnonyms
History
Prehistory
Medieval and early modern history
Modern history
Languages
Reconstruction of ''Mordvin'' language
Classification
Ethnic structure
Demographics
Cultures, folklores and mythologies
Religion
National representative bodies
Genetics
Appearance
List of notable Mordvins
Erzyans
Mokshans
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.

==Names== thumb|Mordva populi (Mordva people) shown on a 1550 map by Giacomo Gastaldi as residing south of [[Kasimov and Nizhny Novgorod]]

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