Hill Mari language
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Hill Mari | |
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Кырык мары йӹлмӹ Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts) |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2012)[1] |
Official status | |
Official language in | Russia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mrj |
Glottolog | kozy1238 |
ELP | Western Mari |
Hill Mari or Western Mari (Мары йӹлмӹ) 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 and Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.
Alphabet
А а | Ä ä | 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
- 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.
Western Mari edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
References
- ^ Hill Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Glottolog 4.1 — Western Mari
External links
- Pictures of Gornomariysky District (in Russian)
- Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)