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Language code: myv

Technical information about ISO 639 language code myv

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The table below provides technical details for the Erzya language, designated by the myv code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

myv

Name

Erzya

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
CentralNorthernSouth-EasternSouth-Western
Related languages
MokshaMeadow MariHill Mari
Key facts
Erzya is one of the two Mordvinic branches of the Uralic familyIt is written with a modified Cyrillic alphabet that adds the letters Ё, Ӗ, Ӧ and ӞThe language is highly agglutinative, with around twenty grammatical casesErzya phonology features vowel harmony and word-final devoicingA Latin-based orthography was experimented with in the 1920s–1930s, but Cyrillic remained dominant.
Sample phrase

Шумбрат, кода вайгат?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Erzya language, identified by the code myv, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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