Erzya literature is literature written in the

Erzya language The Erzya language (, , ), also Erzian or historically Arisa, is spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara ...

, which is spoken by about half a million people in the

Republic of Mordovia The Republic of Mordovia (russian: Респу́блика Мордо́вия, r=Respublika Mordoviya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə mɐrˈdovʲɪjə; mdf, Мордовия Республиксь, ''Mordovija Respublikś''; myv, Мордовия Рес ...

and adjacent regions in

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. Erzya literature, written using

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, experienced a renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.

Noted Erzya writers

* Aleksej Vasil'evich Dunyashin (8 Feb. 1904–1931) was born in the Erzya village of Poksh Tolkan in Pokhvistneva Raion,

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. He wrote

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s (satirical and entertaining columns) for various newspapers throughout the

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from 1924 till his death in 1931. A collection of his writings, "Pidsipalakst" (''Stinging nettles''), was published in 1930.Vasilij D'omin. Сюконян тенк... Эрзянь писательде ёвтнемат. Saransk, 2005. .

References

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