Hill Mari or Western Mari (, ''Mary jÿlmÿ'') is a
Uralic
The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (w ...
language closely related to
Northwestern Mari and
Meadow Mari. With the first of them Hill Mari joins a Western Mari group.
Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
/ref> Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El
The Mari El Republic (russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, ''Respublika Mariy El''; Meadow Mari: ; Hill Mari: ) is a republic of Russia. It is in the European Russia region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga Rive ...
, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
. It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
and is co-official with Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
and Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.
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
*
Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary
(robust finite-state, open-source)
Mari language
Languages of Russia
Culture of Mari El
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