Hill Mari or Western Mari (, ''kyryk mary'') is a
Uralic language closely related to
Northwestern Mari and
Meadow Mari, in which Hill Mari forms a Western Mari group with the former.
Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
/ref> Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El
Mari El,; ; officially the Mari El Republic, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia. It is in the European Russia, European region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga River, and administratively part of the Volga Federal ...
, Russia
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. It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script
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and is co-official with Russian as well as Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.
Alphabet
See also
*Hill Mari people
The Hill Mari or Mountain Mari () are a subgroup of the Mari people, a Volga Finnic ethnic group of Russia. They are concentrated in Gornomariysky District of the Mari El republic.
History
The tribes of the Pozdnegorodetskaya culture are be ...
* 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
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Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary
(robust finite-state, open-source)
Mari language
Indigenous languages of European Russia
Culture of Mari El
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