Mari
Uralic language
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Summary
Mari is a macrolanguage[1]. Mari draws 2,457 Wikipedia views per month (macrolanguage category, ranking #8 of 12).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3]
- Instance of: language[4], modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Finno-Volgaic[6]
- Writing system: Mari alphabet[7], Cyrillic script[8]
- Commons category: Mari language[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mari language[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 470,000[11]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12]
- Different from: Mari[13]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[14]
- Indigenous to: Mari people[15], Mari El[16], Bashkortostan[17], Tatarstan[18], Sverdlovsk Oblast[19], Kirov Oblast[20], Perm Krai[21]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHM[22]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[23], genitive case[24], dative case[25], accusative case[26], comparative case[27], comitative case[28], inessive case[29], lative case[30], illative case[31]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[32], nominative–accusative language[33], agglutinative language[34], stress[35]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Mari-language films[36]
Why It Matters
Mari has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Mari is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]