Hill Mari or Western Mari (Мары йӹлмӹ, Mary jÿlmÿ) is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari. With the first of them Hill Mari joins a Western Mari group.[2] 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 and Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.

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Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары йӹлмӹ, Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers	30,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Uralic Mari Western Mari Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mrj
Glottolog	kozy1238
ELP	Western Mari
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

Alphabet

See also

• Valeri Alikov

Bibliography

• 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

External links

• Media related to Hill Mari language at Wikimedia Commons
• Pictures of Gornomariysky District (in Russian)
• Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)

Western Mari edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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На других языках

[fr] Mari des montagnes

[ru] Горномарийский язык