Mari
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Mari, also known as Cheremis, is spoken principally in the Russian Republic of Mari El (capital: Yoshkar Ola), located in central European Russia directly north of the Chuvash Republic and Tatarstan. About 300,000 speakers live here, with another 100,000 in the Bashkortostan to the east, and another 100,000 scattered about in neigh-boring regions.
Mari is one of the Finno-Ugric languages. There are two main dialects—Meadow and Hill—the former spoken by about 80 percent of the total.
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- Language Family
- Uralic
- Subgroup
- Finno-Ugric
- Branch
- Finnic