Hill Mari language

Hill Mari or Western Mari (Мары йӹлмӹ, Mary jÿlmÿ) is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari. With the first of them Hill Mari joins a Western Mari group.[2] 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.

Not to be confused with Mary Hill.
Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары йӹлмӹ, Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ
Native toRussia
RegionMari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers
30,000 (2012)[1]
Uralic
  • Mari
    • Western Mari
      • Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in
 Russia
Language codes
ISO 639-3mrj
Glottologkozy1238
ELPWestern Mari
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

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
  1. Hill Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
Western Mari edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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