Meadow Mari

E250769

Meadow Mari is a Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language spoken primarily by the Meadow Mari people in the Mari El Republic of Russia.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Meadow Mari canonical 8
Eastern Meadow Mari 1
Meadow Mari standard 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finno-Ugric language
Uralic language
standardized language
ancestor Proto-Finno-Ugric language
surface form: Proto-Finno-Ugric

Proto-Mari
Proto-Uralic language
surface form: Proto-Uralic
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Hill Mari
Northwestern Mari
country Russia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mari people
glottocode east2328
hasCaseSystem rich case system
hasDialect Central Meadow Mari
Meadow Mari self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eastern Meadow Mari

Meadow Mari self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Meadow Mari
hasGrammaticalFeature no grammatical gender
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasLiteraryStandard true
hasPalatalizationContrast true
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant palatalization
vowel harmony
hasWritingStandard Hill Mari–Meadow Mari separate standards
ISO639-1 none
ISO639-2 chm
ISO639-3 mhr
languageBranch Finno-Ugric languages
surface form: Finno-Ugric
languageCode mhr
languageFamily Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
languageGroup Mari
morphologicalType agglutinative
officialScript Cyrillic script
primaryRegion Mari El Republic
primarySpeakers Meadow Mari people
spokenIn Republic of Bashkortostan
surface form: Bashkortostan

Kirov Oblast
Mari El Republic
Tatarstan
Udmurtia
surface form: Udmurt Republic
subclassOf Mari language
Volga-Finnic language
agglutinative language
subject–object–verb language
usedIn cultural activities of Mari people
education in Mari El Republic
local media in Mari El Republic
usesVowelHarmony true
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mari El officialLanguage Meadow Mari
Mari language hasDialect Meadow Mari
Mari language hasStandardVariety Meadow Mari
this entity surface form: Standard Meadow Mari
Mari hasDialect Meadow Mari
subject surface form: Mari language
Mari hasStandardVariety Meadow Mari
subject surface form: Mari language
this entity surface form: Meadow Mari standard
Hill Mari closelyRelatedTo Meadow Mari
Meadow Mari hasDialect Meadow Mari self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eastern Meadow Mari
Meadow Mari hasDialect Meadow Mari self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Meadow Mari
Mari people hasSubgroup Meadow Mari
Yoshkar-Ola languageUsed Meadow Mari