Re: Slavs

Merja was very close to Mordvin

so I am very much interested in getting data about it,

Is there something written or available on Merjan ?

Thanks in advance

Arnaud

----- Original Message -----

From: george knysh

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:49 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Slavs

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:

> Extinct Uralic languages, from
> Gyula Décsy
> The Uralic Protolanguage:

> Merja Nero/Pleshchevejo Lake Russified 13th
> century

****GK: There were still large pockets left in the
16th c. (some even recognized as administrative
divisions, the so-called "Mersky Stani") throughout
the territory central Muscovy. Acc. to Tkachenko, the
village dialects of today's Vladimir, Ivanovo, Moscow,
and adjoining oblasts retain substantial lexical,
syntactical, and morphological elements of the old
Meryan language.*** *

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