Meadow Mari language
Meadow Mari | |
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Native to | Mariy El Autonomous Republic, Russia |
Native speakers | ca. 350,000 (2010)[1] (90% of all Mari) |
Cyrillic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mhr |
ELP | Eastern Mari |
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.[2]
References
- ^ Jansen & Tol, 2002, Language Death and Language Maintenance
- ^ University of Graz