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Finno-Ugric (/ ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k / or / ˌ f ɪ n oʊ ˈ uː ɡ r ɪ k /) is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages.
- Ugric Languages
The Ugric or Ugrian languages (/ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k, ˈ uː-/ or /...
- Finno-Permic Languages
The Finno-Permic or Finno-Permian languages, sometimes just...
- Samoyedic Languages
The Samoyedic (/ ˌ s æ m ə ˈ j ɛ d ɪ k,-m ɔɪ-/) or Samoyed...
- Proto-Uralic
Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language...
- Ugric Languages
This is evidence that the word was borrowed into Finno-Ugric from Indo-Iranian or Indo-Aryan. This borrowing may have occurred in the region north of the Pontic–Caspian steppes around 2100–1800 BC, the approximate floruit of Indo-Iranian (Anthony 2007:371–411).
MeaningProto-indo-europeanIndo-european ExamplesProto-uralicfirst person singular*-mSanskrit -m, Old Persian -m, Latin -m, ...*-mfirst person plural*-meLithuanian -me, Sanskrit -ma, Greek -men.*-mesecond person singular*-s (active)Sanskrit -s, Greek -s, Latin -s, Gothic ...*-tsecond person singular*-tHa (perfect)Greek -tʰa, Sanskrit -tʰa.*-t- None
- Eurasia
- Proposed language family
The Finnic peoples are sometimes called Finno-Ugric, uniting them with the Hungarians, or Uralic, uniting them also with the Samoyeds. These linguistic connections were discovered between the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.
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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Finnic peoples, descendants of a collection of tribal peoples speaking closely related languages of the Finno-Ugric family who migrated to the area of the eastern Baltic, Finland, and Karelia before ad 400—probably between 100 bc and ad 100, though some authorities place the migration many.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 2, 2019 · Abstract. Finno-Ugric countries are represented by Finland, Estonia, Hungary, and Russia. While there is a discussion on the Finno-Ugric world existence, Finno-Ugric cooperation is taking place in one form or another. Primarily, Finno-Ugrians collaborate in the sphere of culture and education.
The Finno-Ugrian Society is one of the oldest and largest learned societies in Finland. Ever since its founding, the society has striven to promote the research of Uralic and Altaic languages, the ethnography of their speakers as well as the latter's historical and prehistorical past. Our books are available at the Tiedekirja bookstore.