The Mordvins, also Mordva, Mordvinians, Mordovians (/Erzyat, /Mokshet, /Muhshilar, /Mordva; for Qaratai: /Karatayi), are the members of a people speaking a Mordvinic language of the Uralic language family and living mainly in republic of Mordovia and other parts of the middle Volga River region of Russia