Their self-designation is Mordva, Erzya and Moksha.
Language
The Erzya and Moksha Mordvinic languages belong to the Baltic-Volga group of the Finno-Ugric languages. The Erzya language includes five dialects, and the Mokshan language, three dialects; on the basis of these dialects the Moksha and Erzya standard languages were created. For a significant part of the Mordva, the Russian language is native.
Dispersion
They live in the Republic of Mordovia (283.9 thousand people), Samara (86 thousand), Penza (70.7 thousand), Orenburg (52.5 thousand), Ulyanovsk (50.2 thousand) regions and on other territories of the Russian Federation.
National costume
The traditional male costume of the Mordva is practically identical to the Russian one. The female clothes included a shirt, in the case of Erzya with complicated thigh decoration (pulay). On the collar, there was a special decorative clasp (syulgam). They wore a lot of decorations: complex breast collars from beads, woollen tassels and coins, earrings, bracelets, rings. Erzya women wore tall headgear with a long decorated canvas wing descending onto their back; Moksha women wore headbands as well as two corned headgear.
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