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Hill Mari
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Mari language in the Uralic language family
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Mari El ( Gornomariysky , Yurinsky , Kilemarsky districts), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Ethnicity
- Hill Mari people
- Native speakers
- 30,000 (2012)
- Language family
- Uralic Mari Western Mari Hill Mari
- Official language in
- Russia Mari El
- Iso 639 3
- mrj
- Glottolog
- kozy1238
- Elp
- Western Mari
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
UraTyp - Language Hill Mari
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Encyclopedic overview
Hill Mari or Western Mari (кырык мары, 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.
Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, as well as in Voskresensky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. In the northern part of its distribution area, it borders the Northwestern Mari language, with which it together occupies the western regions of Mari language distribution. The main differences between Hill Mari and Meadow Mari are phonological, and to a lesser extent, morphological.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hill Mari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.