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Meshchera is an extinct Uralic language, it was either a Mordvinic or a Permic language.[1][2] Pauli Rahkonen has suggested on the basis of toponymic evidence that it was a Permic or closely related language.[3] Rahkonen's speculation has been criticized by Vladimir Napolskikh.[4] Meshchera was spoken around the left black of the Middle Oka. Some Meshchera speaking people possibly assimilated into Mishar Tatars.[3] However this theory is disputed.[5]

Meshchera
Native speakers	0
Language family	Uralic Finno-Permic? Mordvinic?/Permic? Meshchera
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The first Russian written source which mentions them is the Tolkovaya Paleya, from the 13th century. They are also mentioned in several later Russian chronicles from the period before the 16th century, and even later, in one of the letters by Andrey Kurbsky written in the second half of the 16th century, where he claimed the language spoken in the Meshchera region to be Mordvinic.[6]

Reconstruction

Some words have been reconstructed from Meshchera based on toponymic data, for example: Meshchera hydronymic stems un-, ič-, vil- and ul, which can be compared to Udmurt uno 'big', iči 'little', vi̮l 'upper' and ulo 'lower'.[7]

See also

• Meryans
• Meryan language
• Volga Finns

References

На других языках

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[de] Meschtscherische Sprache

Das Meschtscherische war eine finno-ugrische Sprache. Sie wurde vom Volk der Meschtscheren (russisch: Мещeра) zwischen den Flüssen Oka und Kljasma in der heutigen Oblast Rjasan gesprochen. Die Tiefebene mit ihren Flüssen, Sümpfen und Seen wird heute noch Meschtschora genannt.

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- [en] Meshchera language

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[it] Lingua meščëra

La lingua meščëra era una lingua ugrofinnica parlata dalle tribù meščëra in quello che oggi è il bacino del fiume Oka all'incirca nell'area centrale della Russia europea. Non si sa quasi niente di questa lingua, ma era probabilmente strettamente imparentata alla lingua mokša e a quella erza. La lingua meščëra si estinse probabilmente nel XVI secolo.

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[ru] Мещерский язык

Меще́рский язы́к — финно-угорский язык, на котором говорило племя мещера, жившее в среднем течении Оки[1] на территории современной России. Об этом языке очень мало известно, до наших дней дошли только топонимы. Мещерский язык находился в отношениях близкого родства с мордовскими языками, особенно с эрзянским; его связи с мокшанским языком являлись гораздо более отдалёнными[2]. На это указывают топонимы и сообщение князя Курбского:

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