Editing Moksha language (section)

{{short description|Uralic language spoken in Russia}}
{{About|the Uralic language spoken in Russia||Moksha (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Moksha
| nativename       = {{lang|mdf|мокшень кяль}} {{tlit|mdf|mokšəń käĺ}}
| altname          = Mokshan<ref name=e25>{{e25|mdf}}</ref>
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = [[European Russia]]
| nation           = [[Mordovia]] (Russia)
| ethnicity        = 253,000 [[Mokshas]] (2010 census)
| speakers         = {{sigfig|23178|2}}
| date             = 2020 census
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 6. Население по родному языку.|trans-title=Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 6. population according to native language. |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=rosstat.gov.ru}}</ref>
| agency           = Mordovian Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics
| familycolor      = Uralic
| fam2             = [[Mordvinic languages|Mordvinic]]
| iso2             = mdf
| iso3             = mdf
| glotto           = moks1248
| glottorefname    = Moksha
| script           = [[Cyrillic]]
| map              = 3-Mordvin.png
| mapcaption       = Mordvin languages at the beginning of the 20th century<ref name=map1>{{Cite journal |last1=Rantanen |first1=Timo |last2=Tolvanen |first2=Harri |last3=Roose |first3=Meeli |last4=Ylikoski |first4=Jussi |last5=Vesakoski |first5=Outi |date=2022-06-08 |title=Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=e0269648 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0269648|doi-access=free |pmid=35675367 |pmc=9176854 |bibcode=2022PLoSO..1769648R }}</ref><ref name=map2>Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). ''Geographical database of the Uralic languages'' (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188</ref>
| map2             = Lang Status 60-DE.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Moksha is classified as Definitely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| notice           = IPA
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|mdf|'mɔkʃənʲ kælʲ|}}
}}

'''Moksha''' ({{langx|mdf|мокшень кяль|translit=mokšəń käĺ|label=none}}, {{IPA|mdf|'mɔkʃənʲ kælʲ|pron}}) is a [[Mordvinic languages|Mordvinic language]] of the [[Uralic languages|Uralic family]], spoken by [[Mokshas]], with around 130,000 native speakers in 2010.
Moksha is the majority language in the western part of [[Mordovia]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387864/Moksha-language] Encyclopædia Britannica</ref>
Its closest relative is the [[Erzya language]], with which it is not [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]]. Moksha is also possibly closely related to the extinct [[Meshcherian language|Meshcherian]] and [[Muromian language|Muromian]] languages.<ref name=LangDeathMain>{{cite book |title=Language Death and Language Maintenance |last=Janse |first=Mark |author2=Sijmen Tol |author3=Vincent Hendriks  |year=2000 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |isbn=978-90-272-4752-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdzVePSApMgC&pg=PA108 |page=A108 }}</ref>