Shokshas
Shoksha (Erzya: шокшот, romanized: šokšot, Russian: шокша, romanized: shoksha) is an ethnographic group of Erzya people. It is named after the village of Shoksha in Tengushevsky District, Mordovia.[1][2] They live mostly in Mordovia, Tengushevsky District and Torbeyevsky District. The ethnonym is relatively recent.[3]
Shoksha live (or lived) in following settlements:
Language
[edit]| Shoksha | |
|---|---|
| Shokshsky, Shoksha-Mordovian | |
| шокшскень кяль | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Shoksha, Tengushevsky District |
| Ethnicity | Shokshas |
Native speakers | 1,669 |
| unwritten | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
 Dialect map of Moksha-Erzya-Shoksha; "E-V" is for Shoksha | |
The Shoksha speak the Shoksha dialect, a dialect of the Erzya language formed under the influence of the Moksha language, as for a long time Shokshas have been living with and surrounded by Mokshas. The language is unwritten and has a status of critically endangered.
Genetics
[edit]Based on 65 samples from Tengushevsky, 44.6 percent of Shoksha men have the haplogroup R1a (mostly R1a-CTS1211), and 43.1 percent carry the halpogroup N1c. Some other haplogroups are found with lower frequencies.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Mordva
- ↑ Шаронов С. М., Шокша: Историко-этногрофический очерк, Saransk, 2004, ISBN 5-7493-0693-3
- 1 2 3 МОРДВА, ЭРЗЯ, МОКША — ИСТОРИЯ ЭТНОСА И ЭТНОНИМА
- ↑ Ponomarev, GYu; Shlykov, Ag; Gorin, Io; Voronina, Mm; Potanina, AYu; Petrov, Va; Koshel, Sm; Adamov, Ds; Balanovska, Ev (2025-12-01). "Genetic portraits of volga–Oka region in the context of the Central Russia's gene pool (Y-SNP polymorphism)". Bulletin of Russian State Medical University (6). doi:10.24075/brsmu.2025.062. ISSN 2500-1094.