Working database for Mordvin language and dialect classification. Maps can be viewed here.
If you use this data set in an academic publication, we would be ever so grateful if you cited it as follows:
Niko Partanen, Olga Erina & Jack Rueter. (2019, September 5). Maps of Mordvin Varieties (Version v0.5)
This file provides placename, coordinates and dialect identification according to the classification in the 4-volumes (2703 pages) of the dictionary (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996). The initial dialect maps are composed of classifications in the first volume of Paasonen's Mordwinisches Wörterbuch (1990:LXXXVII–XCIX).
In the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch `Dictionary of Mordvin Dialects', there are 269 locales where language materials were collected by and for Heikki Paasonen. Settlements
In the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch `Dictionary of Mordvin Dialects', there are 136 Erzya locales where language materials were collected by and for Heikki Paasonen. The locales are divided into 6 groups, 5 with dialect indication and a sixth without.
In the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch `Dictionary of Mordvin Dialects', there are 73 Moksha locales where language materials were collected by and for Heikki Paasonen. The locales are divided into 6 groups, 5 with dialect indication and a sixth without.
In the list of Moksha locales of dialect collection from 2005 all locales are Moksha.
In the Encyclopedia Peoples of Bashkortostan of 2014 [Народы Башкортостана, Энциклопедия], there is no distinctions made for Erzya or Moksha. Therefore this information can only be used to indicate the presence of Mordvin stock. Designations are only given at the raion level. @INCOLLECTION {, author = "А. С. Щербаков", title = "Мордва", booktitle = "Народы Башкортостана, Энциклопедия", publisher = "Научно-издательский комплекс "Башкирская энциклопедия"", year = "2014", editor = "Ф. Г. Хисамитдинова", type = "Энциклопедия", pages = "186-208" }
database This database accompanies the chapter Mordvin in Uralic languages by Rueter. The goal of that study was to investigate the Moksha language with comparative reference to Erzya. Work on these materials are attributed to Rueter, Partanen, Hämäläinen & Erina, Riabov, Klement'eva, Kabaeva, Levina and others
