Muromian language

{{Short description|Extinct language formerly spoken by the Muromian tribe}}

{{Infobox Language

| name = Muromian

| nativename =

| familycolor = Uralic

| states = Russia

| region = Murom region

| nation =

| fam2 = Mordvinic?/Merya?

| iso2 =

| iso3 = none

| map = File:Finno-ugrian-map-en.svg

| mapcaption = An approximate map of the non-Varangian cultures in European Russia, in the 9th century. The Muromian area is shown in bright green.

| ethnicity = Muromians

| linglist = 0te

| extinct = 10th century

| altname = Muromanian

}}

Muromian is an extinct Uralic{{cite book |last=Wieczynski |first=Joseph |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 |title=The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History |publisher=Academic International Press |year=1976 |isbn=9780875690643 |location= |pages= |authorlink=}} language formerly spoken by the Muromian tribe, in what is today the Murom region in Russia.{{cite book |last=Taagepera |first=Rein |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGqWcZu42hUC |title=The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State |publisher=Routledge |year=1999 |isbn=9780415919777 |location= |page=51 |authorlink=}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Janse |first1=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdzVePSApMgC&pg=PA108 |title=Language Death and Language Maintenance |last2=Tol |first2=Sijmen |last3=Hendriks |first3=Vincent |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |year=2000 |isbn=9789027247520 |location= |page=A108}} Muromian probably became extinct in the Middle Ages around the 10th century,{{Cite book |last=Blokland |first=Rogier |title=The Endangered Uralic Languages |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |year=2003 |isbn=9027247528 |location=Amsterdam |pages=108}} as the Muromians were assimilated by the Slavs.{{cite book |last1=Uibopuu |first1=Valev |url= |title=Finnougrierna och deras språk |last2=Lagman |first2=Herbert |publisher=Studentlitteratur |year=1988 |isbn=9789144254111 |location= |pages= |language=Swedish}} The Muromian language{{cite web |date=2009-06-22 |title=Muromanian |url=http://multitree.org/codes/0te |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712132414/http://multitree.org/codes/0te |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |access-date=2012-07-13 |publisher=MultiTree}} is unattested, but is assumed to have been Uralic, and has frequently been placed in the Volga-Finnic category.{{cite book |last=Janse |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdzVePSApMgC&pg=PA108 |title=Language Death and Language Maintenance |author2=Sijmen Tol |author3=Vincent Hendriks |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |year=2000 |isbn=978-90-272-4752-0 |page=A108}}{{cite book |last=Wieczynski |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Muromian%2C+belong+to+the+so-called+Volga+branch+of+the+Finno-Ugric+languages%22&btnG=Search+Books |title=The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History |publisher=Academic International Press |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-87569-064-3}}{{cite book |last=Taagepera |first=Rein |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGqWcZu42hUC |title=The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State |publisher=Routledge |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-415-91977-7 |page=51}}