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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Europe > Russian Federation (Europe) > Mari, Hill

Mari, Hill

A language of Russian Federation (Europe)

ISO 639-3mrj

Population  30,000 (2007).
Region  Mari El Republic, south of the Volga, Gorno-Mariy; Bashkortostan.
Language map  European Russia
Alternate names   Western Mari, Cheremis, Gorno-Mariy, High Mari, Mari-Hills
Dialects  Kozymodemyan, Yaran. Lexical, phonological, and morphological differences with Meadow Mari [mhr].
Classification  Uralic, Mari
A member of macrolanguage Mari (Russia) [chm] (Russian Federation (Europe)).
Language use  Also use Russian or Meadow Mari.
Language development  NT: 1827.
Writing system  Cyrillic script.
Comments  Agriculturalists; lumbermen. Christian, traditional religion.