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Meadow Mari
Meadow-Eastern Mari is the generalized name of the ethnic group of the Mari including the historically formed ethnic groups of Meadow Mari and Eastern Mari. Their self-definition is Mari or Mariy (from “man” or “human” in the Mari language).
Language
The Mari language, which belongs to the Volga-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric languages, includes the Mountain, Meadow, Eastern and Northwestern dialects. The use of the Russian language is also common. The writing system was created based on the Cyrillic script.
Dispersion
The Meadow-Eastern Mari live in the Republic of Bashkortostan (in the northern and western parts of the Republic, the majority in four districts: Birsk, Krasnokamsk, Kaltasy and Mishkino). There are many Mari in the Kirov and Sverdlovsk regions, in Tatarstan, in Udmurtia, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, in the Volgograd region and the Perm territory.
