Meadow Mari | |
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Spoken in | Mariy El Autonomous Republic, Russia |
Native speakers | 460,000 (2002 census) |
Language family | |
Writing system | Cyrillic |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mhr |
Meadow Mari or Eastern Mari is a standardized dialect of the Mari language used by about half a million people mostly in the European part of the Russian Federation. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official languages in the Mariy El Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation.[1]