Meryans

Meryans
Total population
assimilated, however some people have begun to identify as Meryan again
Languages
Meryan (reconstructed form), Russian
Related ethnic groups
Finnic peoples, Mari people

The Meryans (also Merya people; Russian: меряне, meryane or меря, marya) were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region.[1][2] The Primary Chronicle places them around the Nero and Pleshcheyevo lakes. They were assimilated to Russians around the 13th century,[3] but there has been a modern revival of Meryan culture and language, termed Meryan ethnofuturism [ru].

  1. ^ Меря // Отечественная история. История России с древнейших времен до 1917 года: Энциклопедия / Глав. ред. В. Л. Янин. — М.: Большая российская энциклопедия, 2000. — Т. 3. К—М. — С. 559—560.
  2. ^ Матвеев А. К. Субстратная топонимия русского Севера и мерянская проблема // Вопросы языкознания. — 1996. — № 1. — С. 3—23.
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