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Cheremis

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Noun1.Cheremis - a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
Russian - a native or inhabitant of Russia
2.Cheremis - the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
Volgaic - a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river


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1969, The Syntactical Distribution of the Cheremis Genitive II, Helsinki (MSFOu 146).
In Cheremis and in the Finnic languages unmarked objects next to indicative finite verbs are unattested, but in Lapp, the language most closely related to Finnic, they are found in the plural, as 11 shows: (11) vuost[?
This occurs especially in the 3pssg mainly in Cheremis [Mari] [--] Vogul [Mansi], Ostyak [Hanti] and Samoyedic, infrequently also in Mordvin.
 
 
 
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