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Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th century and is criticized by some contemporary linguists such as Tapani Salminen and Ante Aikio. [2] [3] The three most-spoken Uralic languages, Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, are all included in Finno-Ugric.
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Finno-Ugric languages, group of languages constituting much the larger of the two branches of a more comprehensive grouping, the Uralic languages (q.v.). The Finno-Ugric languages are spoken by several million people distributed discontinuously over an area extending from Norway in the west to the Ob River region in Siberia and south to the ...
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Feb 2, 2024 · The Finno-Ugric languages are represented today by some 20 languages scattered over an immense Eurasian territory. In the west they include the European national languages Hungarian , Finnish , and Estonian as well as the Sami (or Lapp) languages, the westernmost members of the group, spoken by numerous distinct communities across the northern ...
views 3,156,010 updated. Finno-Ugric languages (fĬn´ō-ōō´grĬk), also called Finno-Ugrian languages, group of languages forming a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ).
Sep 13, 2023 · The Finno-Ugric languages are a fascinating linguistic group of the Uralic language family that spans across Northern Eurasia. These languages are unique in their own right, with distinctive features and characteristics that set them apart from other language families.
Scholars. The term Finno-Ugric refers to a group of peoples who inhabit regions of northern Scandinavia, Siberia, the Baltic area, and central Europe and to the languages they speak, which collectively make up the largest of two branches of the Uralic family of languages.
Jan 13, 2011 · As the name suggests, the Finno-Ugric family consists of two major branches: Finnic languages and Ugric languages. The former branch includes Finnish, as well as Estonian, Saami, Komi, Mordvin, Udmurt, Mari and several other smaller languages such as Karelian, Votic, Veps and Livonian.