THE PERMIANS'-MARI LANGUAGE CONVERGENCES: THE EXPERIENCE OF HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
The article is dedicated to the problem of relations between the Mari and Permic (Udmurt and Komi) languages and peoples. There is a number linguistic parallels between these languages which are interpreted by scholars in different ways, but usually they are regarded as Permic borrowings in the Mari language. It should be said that till nowadays the scholars paid main attention to the Permic-Mari linguistic parallels which are spread in all or in the most part of Mari dialects. A new attention to analyse the phonetic, morphological and lexical parallels in Mari and Udmurt dialects has been done in this article. The analyse of these parallels and also some data of archaeology, history and other sciences allow us to conclude that in medieval ages considerable groups of Permians (Proto-Udmurts) were assimilated by Proto-Maris in the Vyatka-Vetluga region. Thus we can say that the Permians have played an important role in forming of the modern Mari people.