Endangered Languages Project - Western Mari

Western Mari

^{[aka Hill Mari, Cheremis, High Mari]}

Classification: Uralic

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Hill Mari, Cheremis, High Mari, Hill Cheremis, кырык мары, горномарийский язык, vuorimari, Western Cheremis, Tscheremissisch, westliches Mundartgebiet, Bergtscheremissisch, Cheremissian, tchérémisse, marijcy, Gorno-Mariy, marij jylme, marijskij jazyk, gornomarijskij jazyk, Bergčeremissisch, Szeremissi, Cheremiss,
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Mari
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mrj
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Yaran Kozymodemyan
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<50,000
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Interference from Russian is generally stronger in Western Mari than in Eastern Mari.

PLACES: East-central Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in westernmost parts of the Republic of Mariy-El and adjacent parts of Kirov (Vyatka) and Nizhniy Novgorod provinces in the Russian Federation.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
30,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2007

PLACES: Russia;

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
66,000
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
36,822
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press