Ersja

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The Ersja are a people in Russia , mainly in the Republic of Mordovia . You belong to the Volga Finns . The Ersja are considered by some ethnologists to be the larger of the two main groups of the Mordvins (the smaller are the Mokscha ), while others assume that they are two different peoples. The language of the Ersja is Ersjanisch . In the Russian Census 2010 57.008 people gave Erzya as nationality.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-01.pdf