Uralic · ISO 639-3 myv
Erzya Language Эрзянь
Erzya is an Uralic language spoken by about 440,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Erzya is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Erzya language
Erzya (Эрзянь) is spoken by about 440,000 people, which makes it the 499th most spoken language in the world — just behind Yakut (450,000) and ahead of Kumyk (426,212). It belongs to the Uralic language family.
Where is Erzya spoken?
Erzya is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (436,545).
Erzya is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Erzya is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Moksha.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 myv.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.