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Name: Mari, Eastern Type: Language Alternate Names: Eastern Mari; Cheremiss; Cheremis; Mari; mari; eastern group; Mari (Meadow); Mari (Low); Eastern Cheremis; Tscheremissisch; Cheremissian; tchérémisse; marijcy; Mari-Woods; Low Mari; Lugovo Mari; Meadow Mari; Eastern; Čeremissisch; marij jylme; marijskij jazyk; lugovo-vostočnyi marijskij jazyk; gornomarijskij jazyk; Ostčeremissisch; Szeremissi; More Spoken in: Kazakhstan, Russia Number of speakers: 451,000 in Russian Federation (2002 census). Population total all countries: 460,090. Ethnic population: 604,298 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 414211 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 534569 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: mhr Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed) Parent Subgroup: Mari; Mariic; Cheremisic (cher) Child Dialect: Grassland Mari; Meadow Cheremis; Meadow dialect; Meadow-Eastern Mari; Wiesentscheremissisch; Wiesendialekt; Yoshkar-Olin; Volga; Sernur-Morkin; Meadow Mari; wiesenčeremissische Sprachform; lugovoe narečie (mhr-gra)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed