Cheremiss (Noun)
Meaning 1
A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
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Hypernyms
Meaning 2
The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Cheremis language is one of the Finnic languages spoken by around 500,000 people.
- He documented and deciphered two Old Turkic inscriptions found amongst inscriptions in Cheremis and other languages.
- Though his work has not yet been translated into the Cheremis language or any other Finnic language.
- The modern written languages of the Mari people are based on one dialect of the Hill Cheremis and one dialect of the Meadow Cheremis.
- According to some Mari, the Mari or Cheremis language can be divided into four dialects, the differences being quite significant.