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DOI: 10.15507/VMU.025.201503.073
CULTURE AND LANGU AGE OF ANCIENT MORDVINI ANS (MOKSHA AND ERZYA ANC ESTORS)
Polyakov Osip Yegorovich
(head of chair of Moksha Language of Ogarev Mordovia State University (68, Bolshevistskaya str., Saransk, Russia), Dr. Sci. (Philology), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Levina Mariya Zakharovna
(associate professor of chair of Moksha Language of Ogarev Mordovia State University (68, Bolshevistskaya str., Saransk, Russia), Ph. D. (Philology), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
The article is devoted to the culture, economic activity and language of the ancient Mordvinian people which was an ancestor of Moksha and Erzya peoples and lived between the Volga and the Oka rivers in I–VIIth centuries. Worshipping to dead ancestors was a typical cult for Mordvinians. They didn’t have churches. Mordvinians believed in god named Shkay-Pavaz. This article is an attempt to restore the sound system, morphology, vocabulary of the ancient Mordvinian language, the authors analyze a number of issues related to establishment of structural features of the grammatical system of the language, study the processes occurring in Mordvinian languages and further tendencies of their development. Contacts of ancient Mordvinians to other nations are described on the basis of materials of written artifacts of the Mordvinian people.
Keywords: ancient Mordvinians, Moksha, Erzya, culture, economic activity, language, ancestors, god.
For citation: Polyakov O. Ye., Levina M. Z. Kultura, khozyaystvennaya deyatelnost i yazyk drevney mordvy (predkov mokshi i erzi) [Culture and language of ancient Mordvinians (Moksha and Erzya ancestors)]. Vestnik Mordovskogo universiteta [Mordovia University Bulletin]. 2015, vol. 25, no. 3, P. 73–80. DOI: 10.15507/VMU.025.201503.073
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