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Volga-Finnic languages |
| Volga-Finnic | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Russian Federation |
| Genetic classification: |
Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-Permic Finno-Volgaic Volga-Finnic |
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| ISO 639-2: | fiu |
The Volga-Finnic languages, also referred to as Volgaic are languages of Volga Finns, speakers of Finno-Ugric languages' subgroup containing Mari language (formerly Cheremis) and Mordvinic languages, which in turn comprises Moksha and Erzya.1 Known extinct Volga-Finnic languages include Merya language, Meshcherian language and Muromian language.
Volgaic together with the Baltic-Finnic language and the Sami languages form the Finno-Volgaic subgroup of Finno-Permic branch which are estimated to have split off undifferentiated Finno Ugric around the 3rd millennium BC. 2 Volgaic itself is estimated to have differentiated into its various member language from around 1200 BC.3
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