Meadow Mari language

Meadow Mari language
Meadow Mari
Spoken in Mariy El Autonomous Republic, Russia
Native speakers 460,000  (2002 census)
Language family
Uralic
Writing system Cyrillic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mhr

Meadow Mari or Eastern Mari is a standardized dialect of the Mari language used by about half a million people mostly in the European part of the Russian Federation. Meadow Mari, Hill Mari, and Russian are official languages in the Mariy El Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation.[1]

References

  1. ^ University of Graz



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