Meadow Mari language

Meadow–Eastern Mari
олык марий, olyk marij
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El Republic
Ethnicity	Meadow Mari, Eastern Mari
Native speakers	470,000 (2012)
Language family	Uralic Mari Meadow–Eastern Mari
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	Russia Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mhr
Glottolog	east2328
ELP	Eastern Mari
Meadow Mari
Eastern Mari is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Meadow Mari, also known as Meadow-Eastern Mari or Eastern Mari, is a standardised dialect of the Mari language used by about half a million people mostly in European Russia. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official languages in the republic of Mari El in the Russian Federation.

Meadow Mari and Eastern Mari are distinct language varieties, which both use the Meadow Mari literary standard.

Alphabet

А а	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	Ҥ ҥ
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
Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

References

Works cited

• Bradley, Jeremy Moss; Pischlöger, Christian (2021-12-16). "Converb constructions in Mari and Udmurt: Russian loanwords as a metric of productivity". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (66): 5–50. doi:10.33339/fuf.97527. ISSN 0355-1253.

External links

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   Media related to Meadow Mari language at Wikimedia Commons
• Meadow & Eastern Mari – Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)