Mari language - one of the Finno-Ugric languages. Spoken in the Republic of Mari El, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Bashkortostan, the Nizhni Novgorod, Kirov, Sverdlovsk and Perm regions. The number of the Maris in Russia is 643,7 thousand. 81,9 % of them regard Mari as their mother tongue, 17,8 % Russian. Main dialects: Meadow, Hill, Eastern, North-Eastern.

Mari has been a written language since the 19th century (Cyrillic script). There are two literary languages: one based on the Meadow and Eastern dialects and another based on the Hill dialect.

Educational institutions

• Department of Finno-Ugric studies and the Department of Mari literature of the Mari state university (information in Russian)

Language technologies

• Mari fonts and keyboard layouts

Mass media

• Marii El - Daily newspaper in the Mari language

Pages in the Mari language

• Eastern Mari - The home page of the project "Diaspora mobilisation and identity trajectories in Russia: the case of the Eastern Mari" in Mari, English and Russian
• Gennadi Salmiyanov's home page in Mari, English and Estonian
• Idel-Ural - Web catalogue of the Volga-Ural region
• In creative co-operation - I. Taryanov's article in INF-2, a publication of the Finno-Ugric writers's association, in Mari, English and Russian
• Mari page of the Japanese linguistic Kazuto Matsumura. Includes a Mari-Russian-Japanese dictionary.
• Student’s Section of “Mari ushem” - In Mari, English and Russian
• Vasili Nikolayev's home page in Mari, Finnish, Estonian and English