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 5

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mari language variety
Uralic language
closelyRelatedTo Eastern Mari
Hill Mari
country Russia
ethnicGroup Mari people
glottocode west2391
glottologName Western Mari
hasAlternativeName Meadow Mari (Western variety)
linked to: Meadow Mari

Western Meadow Mari
linked to: Meadow Mari
hasDialects Kozmodemyansk dialect
Volga dialects
Yurino dialect
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Finno-Ugric
Proto-Mari
Proto-Uralic
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
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
languageFamily Uralic
linked to: Uralic languages
languageSubbranch Mari
region right bank of the Volga River in Mari El
western Mari El Republic
sharesVocabularyWith Chuvash language
Komi language
Russian language
Tatar language
spokenIn Mari El Republic
Russian Federation
linked to: Russia

Volga Federal District
standardFormOf literary Western Mari
status minority language in Russia
regional language in Mari El Republic
subclassOf Mari language
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
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (5)

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

Hill Mari alternativeName Western Mari
Western Mari glottologName Western Mari
Gorno-Mari hasAlternativeName Western Mari
Gornomari hasAlternativeName Western Mari