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Language code: chm

Technical information about ISO 639 language code chm

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The table below provides technical details for the Mari (Russia) language, designated by the chm code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

chm

Name

Mari (Russia)

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Meadow (Eastern) MariHill (Western) MariNorthwestern Mari
Related languages
ErzyaMokshaUdmurtKomi
Key facts
Uses a modified Cyrillic alphabet with special letters such as Ӧ, Ӱ and ӸExhibits vowel harmony and highly agglutinative morphology with more than a dozen grammatical casesMaintains two separate literary standards (Meadow and Hill) with their own grammars and spelling rulesRich oral tradition includes epic songs called йӧд (yöd) that preserve ancient mythsKeeps many words related to the traditional Mari pagan religion, one of the few still practiced in Europe
Sample phrase

Шочын! Тый кӱд шке?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Mari (Russia) language, identified by the code chm, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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