Meadow Mari language

Meadow Mari
олык марий, olyk marij
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El Republic
Native speakers	470,000 (2012) [1]
Language family	Uralic Mari Meadow Mari
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mhr
Glottolog	east2328
ELP	Eastern Mari
Meadow Mari
Eastern Mari is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2]

Meadow Mari, also known as Meadow-Eastern Mari or Eastern Mari, is a standardised dialect of the Mari language used by about half a million people mostly in European Russia. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official languages in the republic of Mari El in the Russian Federation. ^[3]

Meadow Mari and Eastern Mari are distinct language varieties, which both use the Meadow Mari literary standard. ^[4]

Alphabet

А а	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	Ҥ ҥ
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
Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

See also

• Meadow Mari people

References

1. Meadow Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Western Mari in Russian Federation". UNESCO WAL. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
3. University of Graz
4. Bradley & Pischlöger 2021, p. 22–23.

Works cited

• Bradley, Jeremy Moss; Pischlöger, Christian (2021-12-16). "Converb constructions in Mari and Udmurt: Russian loanwords as a metric of productivity". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (66): 5–50. doi: 10.33339/fuf.97527 . ISSN   0355-1253.

External links

• Media related to Meadow Mari language at Wikimedia Commons
• Meadow & Eastern Mari – Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)