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Muromian is an extinct Uralic<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> language formerly spoken by the Muromian tribe, in what is today the Murom region in Russia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="LangDeathMain">Template:Cite book</ref> Muromian probably became extinct in the Middle Ages around the 10th century,<ref name=LangDeathMain/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as the Muromians were assimilated by the Slavs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Muromian language<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is unattested, but is assumed to have been Uralic, and has frequently been placed in the Volga-Finnic category.<ref name="Janse 2000 A108">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
ToponymyEdit
A. K. Matveyev identified the toponymic area upon Lower Oka and Lower 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">Pauli Rahkonen. South-Eastern contact area of Finnic languages in the light of onomastics: dissertation, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. 2018</ref>