Hill Mari | |
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Western Mari | |
Кырык мары | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts) |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2012)[1] |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mrj |
Glottolog | kozy1238 |
ELP | Western Mari |
![]() Western Mari is classified as "endangered/unsafe" by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] |
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.[3] Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, Russia. It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script and is co-official with Russian as well as Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.
Alphabet
А а | Ӓ ӓ | 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 |
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 |
Ӹ ӹ | Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
See also
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
- ^ Hill Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Western Mari in Russian Federation". UNESCO WAL. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
External links
Media related to Hill Mari language at Wikimedia Commons
- Pictures of Gornomariysky District (in Russian)
- Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)