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Hill Mari language

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Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары
Native toRussia
RegionMari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers
30,000 (2012)[1]
Uralic
  • Mari
    • Western Mari
      • Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3mrj
Glottologkozy1238
ELPWestern Mari
  Hill Mari
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

Hill Mari or Western Mari (Кырык мары, kyryk mary) is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari, in which Hill Mari forms a Western Mari group with the former.[3] Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, Russia. It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script and is co-official with Russian as well as Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.

Alphabet

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А а Ӓ ӓ Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ё ё
Ж ж З з И и Й й К к Л л М м Н н
О о Ӧ ӧ П п Р р С с Т т У у Ӱ ӱ
Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы
Ӹ ӹ Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я      

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Nadezhda Krasnova, Tatiana Yefremova, Timothy Riese, Jeremy Bradley. Reading Hill Mari through Meadow Mari. Vienna, 2017.
  • Юадаров К. Г. Горномарийский язык: (учебное пособие для учителей родного языка, студентов). Йошкар-Ола, 1997.
  • Саваткова А. А. Словарь горного наречия марийского языка. Йошкар-Ола, 1981.
  • Шорин В. С., Маро-русский словарь горного наречия, Казань, 1920;
  • Коведяева, Е. И. "Горномарийский вариант литературного марийского языка", Языки мира: Уральские языки. Moscow, 1993: 164-173.

References

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  1. ^ Hill Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Western Mari in Russian Federation". UNESCO WAL. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  3. ^ Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
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