Language Information
Mari is a Uralic language natively spoken by about 400,000 people in Russia. The speakers mainly live in the Mari Republic and nearby areas. Mari is an official language of the Mari Republic, along with Russian, but remains taught only in some area schools.
The language used to be known as Cheremiss. There are two primary varieties of Mari: Hill or Western Mari and Meadow or Eastern Mari. The Eastern variety is the most widely used.
Mari is not currently taught at Indiana University, but we do have access to the archived materials listed below.