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The Mokshas (also Mokshans Moksha people in Moksha: Мокшет/Mokshat) are a Mordvinian ethnic group belonging to the Volgaic branch of the Finnic peoples who live in the Russian Federation mostly near the Volga and Moksha rivers a tributary of the Oka River. Their native language is Mokshan one of the two surviving members of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic language family.

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language
Russian language, Moksha language
population place
Russia, Mordovia
related
Mari people, Finno-Ugric peoples, Mordvins
religion
Paganism, Lutheranism, Russian Orthodox Church
total population
296900

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