Meadow Mari or Meadow-Eastern Mari or Eastern Mari is a standardised dialect of the

Mari language The Mari language (Mari: , ''marij jylme''; russian: марийский язык, ''mariyskiy yazyk''), formerly known as the Cheremiss language, spoken by approximately 400,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primar ...

used by about half a million people mostly in the European part of the

Russian Federation 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 ...

. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official languages in the

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 ...

Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation.University of Graz
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Alphabet

References

External links

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Meadow & Eastern Mari - Finnish dictionary
(robust finite-state, open-source) Mari language {{Uralic-lang-stub