Erzya could refer to:
- Erzya language The Erzya language is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia. A diaspora can also be found in Armenia, Estonia as well as in Kazakhstan and, a Uralic language spoken in Russia.
- Erzya Oblasts Erzya Settlements can be found wide spread in the Central Volga Region, cf. table below. Since approximately only one third of the Erzya speaking population resides in the territory of the Mordovian Republic, it will be easier to refer to regions where major Erzya speaking settlements can be located: Erzya Bashkortostan, Erzya Chuvashia, Erzya, the areas of Russian in which Erzya is spoken.
- Erzya literature Erzya literature is literature written in the Erzya language, which is spoken by about half a million people in the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions in Russia. Erzya literature, written using the Cyrillic alphabet, experienced a renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s, literature written in the Erzya language.
- the Erzya people, a subgroup of the indigenous Mordvins The Mordvins are among the larger indigenous peoples of Russia. They speak languages of the Finno-Volgaic branch of the Uralic language family. They consist of two major subgroups[citation needed], the Erzya and Moksha, besides the smaller subgroups of the Qaratay, Teryukhan and Tengushev (or Shoksha) Mordvins who have become fully Russified or of Russia.
- Stepan Erzia Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia (Russian: Степа́н Дми́триевич Э́рьзя (Нефёдов); November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1876 – 24 November 1959) was a Mordvin sculptor who lived in Russia and Argentina. Erzia chose his pseudonym after the native ethnic group, the Erzya Mordvins, a Mordvin sculptor who lived in Russia.
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