Hill Mari or Western Mari (Мары йӹлмӹ, Mary jÿlmÿ) is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari, in which Hill Mari forms a Western Mari group with the former.^[2] Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, Russia. It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script and is co-official with Russian as well as Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.

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Hill Mari
Western Mari
Кырык мары йӹлмӹ, Kyryk mary jÿlmÿ
Native to	Russia
Region	Mari El (Gornomariysky, Yurinsky, Kilemarsky districts)
Native speakers	30,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Uralic Mari Western Mari Hill Mari
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Mari El
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mrj
Glottolog	kozy1238
ELP	Western Mari
Western Mari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

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• Valeri Alikov

• Nadezhda Krasnova, Tatiana Yefremova, Timothy Riese, Jeremy Bradley. Reading Hill Mari through Meadow Mari. Vienna, 2017.
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