Mari, Merya, Muroma — History of the Ethnonyms and Reconstruction of the Substrate Toponymy Languages

The old hypothesis on the relatedness of Merya languages (today we can speak about a group of languages or dialects reconstructed on the basis of substrate toponymy of Central Russia: Merya of Rostov, Merya of Kostroma, and Merya of Murom also known as “Lower Klyazma” Merya) with the Mari (Cheremis)...

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Main Authors: Vladimir V. Napolskikh, Alexander V. Savelyev
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2023-12-01
Series:Вопросы ономастики
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Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/doi/10.15826/vopr_onom.2023.20.3.029.pdf