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Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Phone:
+7 843 236-64-09

Address:
Karla Marksa, 57, Kazan 420015, Russia

The Volga Finns are a historical group of indigenous peoples of Russia living in the vicinity of the Volga, who speak Uralic languages. Their modern representatives are the Mari people, the Erzya and the Moksha Mordvins, as well as extinct Merya, Muromian and Meshchera people. The Permians are sometimes also grouped as Volga Finns. The historical Volga Finns were decisevely in part responsible for the development of the Proto-Indo-Europeans language and cultural ethnogenesis, during the formation of their previous cultures molding into one during the fifth millennium from the Samara culture horizon, which seems they may have shared or influenced and where traces of the earliest stages of Horse domestication were happening, which became fundamental for the later expansion of their languages and culture off the forest-steppes. The modern representatives of Volga Finns live in the basins of the Sura and Moksha rivers, as well as in the interfluve between the Volga and the Belaya rivers. The Mari language has two dialects, the Meadow Mari and the Hill Mari. Traditionally the Mari and the Mordvinic languages were considered to form a Volga-Finnic or Volgaic group within the Uralic language family, accepted by linguists like Robert Austerlitz , Aurélien Sauvageot & Karl Heinrich Menges and Harald Haarmann , but rejected by others like Björn Collinder and Robert Thomas Harms . This grouping has also been criticized by Salminen , who suggests it may be simply a geographic, not a phylogenetic, group. Since 2009 the 16th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World has adopted a classification grouping Mari and Mordvin languages as separate branches of the Uralic language family.
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