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Name: Mari, Western Type: Language Alternate Names: Western Mari; Cheremiss; Cheremis; Mari; mari; western group; Hill Cheremis; Western Cheremis; Mari (Hill); Mari (High); Mountain dialect; Hill Mari; Tscheremissisch; westliches Mundartgebiet; Bergtscheremissisch; Bergdialekt; Cheremissian; tchérémisse; marijcy; Mari-Hills; High Mari; Gorno-Mariy; Hill Cheremiss; Western; Čeremissisch; marij jylme; marijskij jazyk; lugovo-vostočnyi marijskij jazyk; gornomarijskij jazyk; Bergčeremissisch; Szeremissi; More Spoken in: Russia Number of speakers: 30,000 (2007) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 36822 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 66000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: mrj Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed) Parent Subgroup: Mari; Mariic; Cheremisic (cher) Child Dialects: Yaran; dialect of Jaransk; dialect of Yaransk; Jaransk-Mundart; Dialekt des Jaransker Kreises (mrj-yar) Kozymodemyan; dialect of Kozmodemjansk; Koźmode[m]jansk-Mundart; Cheremis; Gorno-Mariy; High Mari; Hill Mari; Mari-Hills; Dialekt von Koz΄modem΄jansk (mrj-koz)

Endangerment Status

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