Re: Slavs

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> 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

****GK: I'm currently travelling in California. When I
get back home in ab. 10 days, I'll look up my notes
and post some references.****

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george knysh
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Slavs
>
>
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> 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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