Editing Muromian language (section)

== Toponymy ==
[[Aleksandr Matveyev (linguist)|A. K. Matveyev]] identified the [[toponymic]] area upon Lower [[Oka River|Oka]] and Lower [[Klyazma River|Klyazma]], which corresponds with Muroma. According to the toponymy, the Muroma language was close to the [[Merya language]].<ref>''Матвеев А. К.'' Мерянская проблема и лингвистическое картографирование // Вопросы языкознания. 2001. № 5.</ref> A few words have been reconstructed in the Muroma language, based on toponyms, such as: ''*juga'' 'river', ''*vi̮ksa'' ‘river connecting two bodies of water', and ''*voht(V)'' ‘neck of land between two bodies of water’.<ref name=":0">[https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38908/southeas.pdf Pauli Rahkonen. South-Eastern contact area of Finnic languages in the light of onomastics: dissertation, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. 2018]</ref>