Hill Mari language

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hill Mari language canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Finno-Ugric language
Uralic language
minority language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsTo Finno-Volgaic group (traditional classification)
closelyRelatedTo Meadow Mari language
Northwestern Mari language
country Russia
endangermentStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Hill Mari people
family Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic language family
glottocode hill1245
hasAlternativeName Gorno-Mari
Gornomari language
Hill Mari
Western Mari
hasCaseSystem rich case system
hasDialect Kuzhener dialect
Morki dialect
Yurino dialect
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalFeature rich vowel inventory
vowel harmony
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
ISO639-3 mrj
isPartOf Mari language continuum
languageFamily Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
nativeTo Mari El Republic
Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Mari traditional religion
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Russian Orthodoxy
region Volga region
regulatoryBody local language committees in Mari El
spokenIn Mari El Republic
Russia
status minority language in Russia
subfamily Finno-Ugric branch
subgroup Mari language
surface form: Mari languages
usedAlongside Russian language
usedFor folklore
local media
oral literature
usedIn traditional Hill Mari culture
usedInEducationLevel primary education (limited)
usesScript Cyrillic alphabet
writingStandardized 20th century
writingSystemBasedOn Russian Cyrillic alphabet

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

Finno-Ugric languages hasMember Hill Mari language
Meadow Mari language closelyRelatedTo Hill Mari language