Mokshan is not Mordvin it's a slur

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Mokshan is not Mordvin it's a slur

Oleg Kazanin, Fri, 2022-07-01 13:24
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Please kindly check en.wiki articles Mordvins, Mordvinic languages and Mordva (slur) and remove the slur "Mordva" and "Mordvin" from Mokshan language description. Mokshas and Erzyas do not share common ancestry (according to DNA studies) and their languages are far related and according to scholarly works may be compared as Italian and French. Mordvins are not an ethnicty, but a soviet construct made in 1928, like Homo Sovieticus aimed to Russify both Mokshas and Erzyas Modern Uralistics regard Proto-Finnic as Finnish-Sami-Moksha, so the term "Mordvinic languages is obsolete. All info is available in en.wiki and confirmed by academic sources. Thanks

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For political reasons, I will not make any of the changes proposed.

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