Shokshas

Shoksha
Shoksha
Shokshsky, Shoksha-Mordovian
шокшскень кяль
Native to	Russia
Region	Shoksha, Tengushevsky District
Ethnicity	Shokshas
Native speakers	1,669
Language family	Uralic Mordvinic Erzya Shoksha; ; ;
Writing system	unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
	Dialect map of Moksha-Erzya-Shoksha; "E-V" is for Shoksha

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:

Tengushevsky District: Баево, Березняк, Вяжга, Дудниково, Коляево, Кураево, Малая Шокша, Мельсетьево, Мокшанка, Нароватово, Сакаево, Стандрово, Шелубей, Широмасово, Shoksha^[3]
Torbeyevsky District: Drakino, Кажлодка, Майский, Фёдоровка (depopulated), Якстере Теште (depopulated)^[3]

Language

The Shoksha speak the Shoksha dialect [de; ru], 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

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

↑ 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.

[1] Mordva

[2] Шаронов С. М., Шокша: Историко-этногрофический очерк, Saransk, 2004, ISBN 5-7493-0693-3

[zupo-3] 1 2 3 МОРДВА, ЭРЗЯ, МОКША — ИСТОРИЯ ЭТНОСА И ЭТНОНИМА

[4] 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.

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