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Elina Guseva is a senior lecturer at Mari State University in Yoshkar-Ola. As a native Mari fluent in English, with experience as a teacher of both English and Mari, her contributions to the Mari-English dictionary as a lexicographer and editor were of essential importance.
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Emma Yakimova and Galina Krylova are native speakers of Mari and experienced language teachers. They granted permission for the rewriting of their 1990/1991 textbook Марийский язык для всех and were actively involved in this process. Their voices can also be heard in the audio materials accompanying the textbook.
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Tatiana Yefremova is a Mari sociolinguist and a lecturer at ELTE University in Budapest. She will assist in the creation of the learner’s grammar and will contribute to the contrastive materials on Hill Mari. Moreover, she lends her voice to the audio materials accompanying the Mari textbook and assists in matters of publicity.
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Julia Kuprina is a native speaker of Hill Mari, and an experienced translator and lexicographer. She is participating in the creation of our Hill Mari-Meadow Mari-English dictionary.
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Nadezhda Krasnova is a native speaker of Hill Mari, an experienced linguist, and has since 2013 been the head of the Department of Intercultural Communication at Mari State University. She will be one of the co-authors of our resource “Reading Hill Mari through Meadow Mari”.
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Johanna Laakso is a professor at the Department of Finno-Ugric studies at the University of Vienna. She has been instrumental in securing funding for our undertaking and has provided useful advice on many occasions.
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Professor Sirkka Saarinen is head of the Finno-Ugric Department at the University of Turku. She put materials created by her department at our disposal and shared her department’s lexicographical know-how with us.
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Professor Elena Skribnik is the head of the Institute of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is providing assistance with the theoretical framework of our grammar.
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Erik Yuzykayn, Andrey Chemyshev and Mikhail Pirogov are, respectively, employees of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Mari El, Mari El Radio, and the Komi Republican Academy of State Services and Administration. They aided us in obtaining digital copies of raw materials needed for our undertakings and the rights to use them.
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Tatiana Perevozchikova was a PhD student at the University of Hamburg. She assisted us with the Russian translation of the website.
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Angelika Parfuss and Ilona Soukup are graduates of the Finno-Ugric Department of the University of Vienna who have assisted the project by digitizing essential materials.
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