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Meadow Mari language

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Meadow Mari
Native toMariy El Autonomous Republic, Russia
Native speakers
ca. 350,000 (2010)[1]
(90% of all Mari)
Uralic
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3mhr
ELPEastern 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

  1. ^ Jansen & Tol, 2002, Language Death and Language Maintenance
  2. ^ University of Graz