Social:Hill Mari language

Short description: Uralic language of the Mari El Republic, Russia

Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары йӹлмӹ, Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers	30,000 (2012)
Language family	Uralic Mari Western Mari Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in	Russia Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mrj
Glottolog	kozy1238
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

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. 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

• 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.

External links

• Pictures of Gornomariysky District (in Russian)
• Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)