Sometimes they would be speaking Mari with their grandmothers, but once the grandmothers are gone, the language is going to be difficult to preserve further.

有时他们也会和他们的祖母说说毛利语，但是一旦他们的祖母死了，这种语言的保存也将变得更加的困难。

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The conference also highlighted the launch of a new Mari-language radio station, which crucially will include not just the folk-music and poetry beloved by cultural conservationists, but also modern idioms such as rap music in Mari.

ECONOMIST: The Finno-Ugrics