Mari alphabet

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Alphabet of the Mari language

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The Mari language is mostly written using a Cyrillic alphabet.

Cyrillic script

Meadow Mari alphabet

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж
З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н	Ҥ ҥ
О о	Ӧ ӧ	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у	Ӱ ӱ
Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы
Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

The Meadow Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 3 more: ҥ, ӧ, and ӱ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /ŋ/, /œ/, and /y/.

Hill Mari alphabet

А а	Ӓ ӓ	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё
Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н
О о	Ӧ ӧ	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у	Ӱ ӱ
Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы
Ӹ ӹ	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

The Hill Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 4 more: ӓ, ӧ, ӱ, and ӹ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /æ/, /œ/, /y/, and /ə̟/.

North-Western Mari alphabet

А а	Ӓ ӓ	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё
Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н
ҥ	О о	Ӧ ӧ	Ө ө	Ӫ ӫ	П п	Р р	С с
Т т	У у	Ӱ ӱ	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш
Щ щ	ъ	Ы ы	Ӹ ӹ	ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

The North-Western Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 7 more: ӓ, ҥ, ӧ, ө, ӱ, ӫ and ӹ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /æ/, /ŋ/, /œ/, /ů/, /y/, /ẙ/ and /ə/.

Latin script

Draft version of the Latin alphabet from 1930

a	ä	в	g	d	z	ƶ	i
j	k	ʟ	ʟ̧	m	n	ꞑ	ŋ
o	p	r	s	t	u	ü	c
ş	ç	ә	ӛ	e	f	h	č
t’	d’

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