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Sami. Mordvinic. Mari. Permic. Ugric. Samoyedic. The Uralic languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Eastern Europe and Asia but originated somewhere in eastern Siberia near Lake Baikal . There are two modern main kinds: the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.
Proto-Finno-Ugric. Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family. The hypothetical language is thought to have been originally spoken in a small area in about 7000–2000 BCE, and expanded to give differentiated Proto-Languages. Some newer research has pushed the "Proto-Uralic homeland ...
Fenni. Finnic languages (disambiguation) Finnic peoples. Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis.
The Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis proposes to link genetic ties originating among Finno-Ugric peoples to high rate of suicide, claiming an allele common among them is responsible. Mari and Udmurts have been found to have a three times higher suicide rate than Finns and Hungarians. It has been thus theorized that such a possible allele may ...
The alternative theories claim that the important language characteristics the Finno-Ugric theory relies upon only developed much later. The diminutives are one of several such cases. The Uralic and Finnish languages have simple diminutives (-csa/i and -ka/e/i), but both variants can be found in the Hungarian language.
Chud or Chude ( Old East Slavic: чудь, Finnish: tšuudi, Northern Sami: čuhti) is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia [1] and Northwestern Russia. [2] It has also been used to refer to other Finno-Ugric peoples.
February 2, 1990. (1990-02-02) (aged 84) Scientific career. Notable students. Lydia Vasikova. Paul Ariste (3 February 1905 – 2 February 1990) was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages (especially Estonian and Votic ), Yiddish [1] and Baltic Romani language . He was born as Paul Berg, in Rääbise ...