Endangered Languages Project - Eastern Mari

Eastern Mari

^{[aka Meadow Mari, Cheremis, Grassland Mari]}

Classification: Uralic

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Meadow Mari, Cheremis, Grassland Mari, олык марий, niittymari, itämari, лугово-восточный марийский, черемисский язык, Cheremiss, Low Mari, Eastern Cheremis, Tscheremissisch, Cheremissian, Tchérémisse, Marijcy, Mari-Woods, Low Mari, Lugovo Mari, Čeremissisch, Marij Jylme, Marijskij Jazyk,
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Mari
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mhr
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Vulnerable

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500,000
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken mainly in central and eastern parts of the
Republic of Mariy-El and parts of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, the Udmurt Republic,
and Yekaterinburg, Perm’ and Orenburg provinces, in the Russian Federation.

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
414,211
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
534,569
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
460,090
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
604,298
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are 451,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census).

PLACES: Kazakhstan; Russia;

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press