Social:North-Western Mari language
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| North-Western Mari | |
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| Йөтнӫмӓл-кӓсвел маре йӹлмӹ Jůtnṳ̊mäl-käsvel mare jÿlmÿ | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Kirov Oblast (Yaransky, Tuzhinsky, Kiknursky, Sanchursky districts), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Tonshayevsky, Sharangsky, Tonkinsky districts), Mari El (north of Kilemarsky and Medvedevsky districts) |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2012) |
Uralic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | yara1249[1] |
North-Western Mari (Маре йӹлмӹ) is a Uralic language closely related to Hill Mari and Meadow Mari. North-Western Mari is spoken in Russia in the Yaransky, Tuzhinsky, Kiknursky, Sanchursky districts of Kirov Oblast, Tonshayevsky, Sharangsky and Tonkinsky districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and partly in Kilemarsky and Medvedevsky districts of Mari El. It is written using the North-Western Mari Cyrillic script, but doesn't have an official status in any subjects of Russian Federation.
North-Western Mari people have difficulties with both other literary languages[2]. The first book in North-Western Mari dialect Маре букварь (Mare bukvar, North-Western Mari primer) was printed in 1995 and become the language as a written one.
Alphabet[3]
| А а | Ӓ ӓ | Б б | В в | Г г | Д д | Е е | Ё ё |
| Ж ж | З з | И и | Й й | К к | Л л | М м | Н н |
| ҥ | О о | Ӧ ӧ | Ө ө | Ӫ ӫ | П п | Р р | С с |
| Т т | У у | Ӱ ӱ | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш |
| Щ щ | ъ | Ы ы | Ы ы | ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
Bibliography
- Moisio A., Saarinen S. Tscheremissisches Wörterbuch / Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae, XXXII. Helsinki, 2008.
- Дмитриев С. Д., Дмитриева В. М., Тужаров Г. М. Маре букварь: (учебник для первого класса). Йошкар-Ола, 1995.
- Иванов И Г., Тужаров Г. М. Северо-западное наречие марийского языка / Диалекты марийского языка. Вып. I. Йошкар-Ола, 1970.
- Иванов И Г., Тужаров Г. М. Словарь северо-западного наречия марийского языка / Диалекты марийского языка. Вып. II. Йошкар-Ола, 1971.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "North-Western Mari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yara1249.
- ↑ Taagepera R. The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State. New York, 1999. P. 223.
- ↑ Language alphabet. Paratype.ru
External links
- Pictures of Tonshaevo Mari people (in Russian)
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