Editing Merya language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Finno-Ugric language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Merya
| extinct          = at latest 18th century
| ref              = 
| familycolor      = Uralic
| fam2             = [[Finnic languages|Finnic]]?/[[Mari language|Mari]]?
| map              = File:Finno-ugrian-map-en.svg
| ethnicity        = [[Meryans]]
| linglist         = 0tw
| altname          = Meryanic
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = Upper [[Volga]]
| mapcaption       = {{legend|#91cab1|Merya}}
| iso3             = none
| revived          = 2000s (reconstructed)
| acceptance       = unattested
}}
'''Merya''' or '''Meryanic''' ({{Langx|orv|мєр(ь)скъıї}}) is an extinct [[Finno-Ugric languages|Finno-Ugric]] language, which was spoken by the [[Meryans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bse.sci-lib.com/article114382.html|title=Уральские языки|website=bse.sci-lib.com}}</ref><ref name="Helimski" /> Merya began to be assimilated by [[East Slavs]] when their territory became incorporated into [[Kievan Rus']] in the 10th century.<ref name="Janse 2000 A108">{{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 Benjaminsf Publishing Company|year=2000|isbn=978-90-272-4752-0|page=A108}}</ref><ref name="Smol">{{cite book|last1=Smolitskaya|first1=G.P.|title=Toponimicheskyi slovar' Tsentral'noy Rossii|date=2002|pages=211–2017|language=ru|script-title=ru:Топонимический словарь Центральной России}}</ref> However some Merya speakers might have even lived in the 18th century.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pauli|first=Rahkonen|date=2013|title=Itämerensuomalaisten kielten kaakkoinen kontaktialue nimistöntutkimuksen valossa|journal=Virittäjä|issue=2|url=https://journal.fi/virittaja/article/view/8316}}</ref> There is also a theory that the word for "[[Moscow]]" originates from the Merya language.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tarkiainen|first=Kari|title=Ruotsin itämaa|publisher=Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland|year=2010|isbn=978-951-583-212-2|location=Helsinki|page=19}}</ref> The Meryan language stretched to the western parts of [[Vologda Oblast]] and [[Moscow]].<ref name="Rahkonen">{{cite thesis|first=Pauli|last=Rahkonen|year=2013|title=The South-Eastern Contact Area of Finnic Languages in the Light of Onomastics|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Helsinki|hdl=10138/38908|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10138/38908}}</ref>