Hill Mari language

Not to be confused with Mary Hill.

Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers	30,000 (2012)
Language family	Uralic Mari Western Mari Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in	Russia Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mrj
Glottolog	kozy1238
ELP	Western Mari
Hill Mari
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Hill Mari or Western Mari (Кырык мары, kyryk mary) is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari, in which Hill Mari forms a Western Mari group with the former. 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 as well as Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.

Alphabet

А а	Ӓ ӓ	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

• Valeri Alikov

Bibliography

• Nadezhda Krasnova, Tatiana Yefremova, Timothy Riese, Jeremy Bradley. Reading Hill Mari through Meadow Mari. Vienna, 2017.
• 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.

External links

• Media related to Hill Mari language at Wikimedia Commons
• Pictures of Gornomariysky District (in Russian)
• Hill Mari - Finnish dictionary (robust finite-state, open-source)