Ethnologue

Mari, Hill

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Cheremis, Gorno-Mariy, High Mari, Mari-Hills, Western Mari

Population

30,000 (2012 T. Salminen).

Location

Mariy-El Republic: Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’; south of the Volga.

Language Maps

Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification

Dialects

Kozymodemyan, Yaran. Lexical, phonological, and morphological differences with Meadow Mari [mhr]. A member of macrolanguage Mari [chm].

Language Use

Includes a few child speakers. Also use Meadow Mari [mhr], Russian [rus].

Language Development

Grammar. NT: 1827.

Language Resources

Writing

Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

Other Comments

Christian, traditional religion.