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== Name ==
The ethnic name ''mari'' derives from the [[Proto-Indo-Iranian]] root *''márya''-, meaning 'human', literally 'mortal, one who has to die', which indicates early contacts between [[Finno-Ugric languages|Finno-Ugric]] and Indo-Iranian languages.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Parpola|first1=A.|title=The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history|last2=Carpelan|first2=C.|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=9780700714636|editor-last=Bryant|editor-first=E. F.|pages=119|chapter=The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record}}</ref>
== History ==
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