Western Mari
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Western Mari is a Uralic language variety spoken by the Mari people, primarily in the western part of the Mari El Republic in Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Mari canonical | 2 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mari language variety
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Eastern Mari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hill Mari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mari people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | west2391 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Western Mari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Meadow Mari (Western variety)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Meadow Mari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Kozmodemyansk dialect
ⓘ
Volga dialects ⓘ Yurino dialect ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticAncestor |
Proto-Finno-Ugric
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Proto-Mari NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Uralic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
extensive case system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
rich vowel inventory
ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
postpositions instead of prepositions
ⓘ
predominantly SOV word order ⓘ |
| isNot | official state language of Russia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mrj ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Finno-Ugric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uralic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubbranch | Mari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
right bank of the Volga River in Mari El
ⓘ
western Mari El Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesVocabularyWith |
Chuvash language
ⓘ
Komi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatar language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mari El Republic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russian Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ Volga Federal District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardFormOf | literary Western Mari ⓘ |
| status |
minority language in Russia
ⓘ
regional language in Mari El Republic ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Mari language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mari-speaking communities in western Mari El ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local education in parts of Mari El
ⓘ
local media in Mari El ⓘ |
| usesAlphabet | Western Mari Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.