{"id":33442,"date":"2021-04-18T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?page_id=33442"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:14:15","slug":"mulks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/estonians\/mulks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"heading-ab37921e\">Names and Territory<\/h3><p>Mulks (in Estonian <em>mulgid<\/em>) are the original inhabitants of Mulgimaa, located south of Viljandi and in the northwestern part of Valga County \u2013 an Estonian tribe living in central southern Estonia and on the Latvian side. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area-831x720.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"34018\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-34018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area-831x720.jpeg 831w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area-462x400.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area-231x200.jpeg 231w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area-768x666.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/South_Estonian_language_area.jpeg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Mulgimaa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1166\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-1166x720.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"34015\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_.png\" class=\"wp-image-34015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-1166x720.png 1166w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-600x371.png 600w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-1536x949.png 1536w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-2048x1265.png 2048w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-1200x741.png 1200w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Flag_of_Mulgimaa.svg_-1980x1223.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Flag of Mulgimaa \/ T\u00f5nno Habicht<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure><p>We do not know and will probably never know exactly where the word <em>Mulk<\/em> comes from. There are oral legends about a place called <em>mulk<\/em> (a hole) through which the robbers arrived and through which they were chased back (Eduard V\u00e4\u00e4ri, 2000). There are not many folk tales about Sakala people travelling south. Apparently mulk became such an important place on the road that people living &nbsp;nearby it were called <em>mulgutagused<\/em> (those behind the mulk) or <em>mulgu\u00e4\u00e4rsed<\/em> (those by the mulk) (V\u00e4\u00e4ri, 2000).&nbsp;General Jaan Soots claimed in 1934 that &#8220;mulk&#8221; is not a Latvian name but comes from Arabic meaning &nbsp;a &#8220;lord&#8221; or a &#8220;master.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p><h3 id=\"heading-5b22875b\">Mulgi dialect<\/h3><p>The geographical boarders of a dialect were formed by administrative units, as well as by natural boundaries and access roads.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Northern and Southern Estonian languages distinguish from each other most clearly, consisting in total of eight dialects and 117 subdialects. At least in terms of the language, Estonia is a big country with many colourful dialects.<\/p><p>\u201cThere are few nations and languages in the world that are as blessed with dialects as Estonian language,\u201c said the Estonian and Mulgi poet <strong>Nikolai Baturin<\/strong>.<\/p><p>After all, a dialect is also an invaluable source of language that offers novel and interesting additions to the written language and thus broadens the spoken language and the whole world of literature\u201c (Viikberg, 2015).<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names and Territory Mulks (in Estonian mulgid) are the original inhabitants of Mulgimaa, located south of Viljandi and in the northwestern part of Valga County &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26843,"parent":18233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[3217,3281],"class_list":["post-33442","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-estonians-en","tag-mulgis-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mulks - Fenno-Ugria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/estonians\/mulks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mulks - Fenno-Ugria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Names and Territory Mulks (in Estonian mulgid) are the original inhabitants of Mulgimaa, located south of Viljandi and in the northwestern part of Valga County &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/peoples\/baltic-finnic-peoples\/estonians\/mulks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fenno-Ugria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fennougria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-20T15:14:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mulgi-lipu-paev-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1209\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/\",\"name\":\"Mulks - Fenno-Ugria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Mulgi-lipu-paev-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-18T14:05:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-20T15:14:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/en\\\/peoples\\\/baltic-finnic-peoples\\\/estonians\\\/mulks\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Mulgi-lipu-paev-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/fennougria.ee\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Mulgi-lipu-paev-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1209,\"caption\":\"Mulgimaa lipp \u00f5nnistati Tarvastu kirikus 12. oktoobril 2013. 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