Muromian language

Infobox Language
name=Muromian
nativename=
familycolor=Uralic
states=Russia
region=Muromian
nation=>
speakers=extinct
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
fam3=Finno-permic
fam4=Finno-Volgaic
fam5=
iso2=
iso3=

Muromian was a Finno-Ugric [cite book |title=The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History |last=Wieczynski |first=Joseph |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1976 |publisher=Academic International Press, |location= |isbn=9780875690643 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Muromian%2C+belong+to+the+so-called+Volga+branch+of+the+Finno-Ugric+languages%22&btnG=Search+Books ] language spoken by the Muromian tribe, in what is today the Murom region in Russia. [cite book |title=The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State |last=Taagepera |first=Rein |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1999 |publisher=Routledge |location= |isbn=9780415919777 |pages=51|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QGqWcZu42hUC&pg] They are mentioned by Jordanes as "Mordens" and in the Primary Chronicle. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya. Muromian probably became extinct in the Middle ages around 1000 AD [cite book |title=Language Death and Language Maintenance |last=Janse |first=Mark |authorlink= |coauthors=Sijmen Tol, Vincent Hendriks |year=2000 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |location= |isbn=9789027247520 |pages=PA108 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=JdzVePSApMgC&pg=PA108 ] , as the Muromians were assimilated by the Slavs. [cite book |language=German|title=Finnougrierna och deras språk |last=Uibopuu |first=Valev |authorlink= |coauthors=Herbert, Lagman |year=1988 |publisher=Studentlitteratur |location= |isbn=9789144254111 |pages= |url= ]

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