Tags: Ethnic Group.

The Mordvins also Mordva Mordvinians Mordovians (Erzya self name Erzya: эрзят/Erzyat Moksha self name Moksha: мокшет/Mokshet Tatar: мухшилар/Muhshilar Russian name for Moksha and Erzya Russian: мордва/Mordva for Qaratai Russian: каратаи/Karatayi) are the members of a people speaking a Mordvinic language of the Uralic language family and living mainly in Mordοvia republic and other parts of the middle Volga River region of Russia One of larger indigenous peoples of Russia.

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language
Russian language, Erzya language, Moksha language, Tatar language
population place
Mordovia, Ryazan Oblast, Samara Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Tatarstan
related
Mari people, Baltic Finns
religion
Eastern Orthodox Church, Molokan, Lutheranism, Russian Orthodox Church, Mordvin native religion
total population
843350

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