Uralic · ISO 639-3 mdf
Moksha Language Мокшень
Moksha is an Uralic language spoken by about 300,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Moksha is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Moksha language
Moksha (Мокшень) is spoken by about 300,000 people, which makes it the 513th most spoken language in the world — just behind Mandjak (310,000) and ahead of Tuvinian (297,000). It belongs to the Uralic language family.
Where is Moksha spoken?
Moksha is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (295,724).
Moksha is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Moksha is written in the Cyrillic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Erzya.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mdf.
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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.