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Muromian
Spoken in	Russia
Region	Muromian
Total speakers	extinct
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-Permic Finno-Volgaic Muromian
Official status
Official language in	>
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	–
An approximative map of the non-Varangian cultures in European Russia, in the 9th century.The Muromian area is shown in green
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Muromian was an Uralic ^[1] language spoken by the Muromian tribe, in what is today the Murom region in Russia. ^[2] They are mentioned by Jordanes as Mordens and in the Primary Chronicle. Very little is known about the language, but it was probably closely related to the Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya. Muromian probably became extinct in the Middle Ages around 1000 AD ^[3] , as the Muromians were assimilated by the Slavs. ^[4]

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