Hill Mari language

Hill Mari
Кырык мары йӹлмӹ Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ
Native to Russia
Region Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers
30,000 (2012)[1]
Uralic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mrj
Glottolog west2392[2]

Hill Mari or Western Mari (Мары йӹлмӹ) is a Uralic language closely related to Meadow Mari. 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.

Alphabet

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      

Bibliography

Western Mari edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

References

  1. Hill Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Western Mari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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