Meshcherian language

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

The Meshchera language was a Finno-Ugric language [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 ] spoken by the Meshchera tribe, in what is today the Oka River basin in Russia. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya. Meshchera language did probably extinct by the 16th century.

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