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There are c. 500.000 Maris living in Russian Federation. They have own autonomic area called Mari El (Марий Эл), capital-city is Joshkar-Ola (map). It is one of the Finno-Ugric languages.
[edit] Arguments in favour
- The Mari language has official status in Mari El. If a languages has a such status it is worth of own Wikipedia. There are a lot of potential users of Mari Wikipedia, but now all Mari speaking Wikipedists are using Russian Wikipedia. Own Wikipedia will help to develop this language. – Artomo 09:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support. The number of speakers and status of language is comparable with Erzya (another Finno-Ugric language of Russia), which is considered successfull and is approved. A.M.D.F. 18:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support. The Mari language is a language which, while spoken by quite a large number of people, suffers from a lack of presence on the net. A Mari Wikipedia would be a huge step in the right direction here. 62.47.128.63 23:53, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- Native speakers of Mari are willing to contribute to this project in the long-term, hence this project has the potential to flourish like the other Finno-Ugric language Wikipedia editions such as Finnish, Estonian, Võro, Moksha etc. Therefore the Mari language ought to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia. --Jose77 22:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Other discussion
- Mari is according to SIL a macro language. It is actually two languages. One of the requirements is that the language needs to be unambiguous. GerardM 22:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it is two languages. This proposal is about Meadow Mari (mhr ISO 639-3). Hill Mari (mrj) should be in a separate project. A.M.D.F. 17:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- When you are proposing this project, please change the request accordingly. Please GerardM 11:34, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Done. A.M.D.F. 19:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
