Meadow Mari or Meadow-Eastern Mari or Eastern Mari is a standardised 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 Mari El Autonomous Republic of the Russian Federation.[2]
| Meadow Mari | |
|---|---|
| олык марий, olyk marij | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Mariy El Republic |
Native speakers | 470,000 (2012)[1] |
| Cyrillic | |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mhr |
| Glottolog | east2328 |
| ELP | Eastern Mari |
 Eastern Mari is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
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
Eastern Mari edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
External links
Media related to Meadow Mari language at Wikimedia Commons- Meadow & Eastern Mari – Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)
