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The term Finno-Ugric, which originally referred to the entire family, is sometimes used as a synonym for the term Uralic, which includes the Samoyedic languages, as commonly happens when a language family is expanded with further discoveries.
- 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
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.
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Finno-Ugric: Geographic distribution: Central Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Northern Asia: Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families: Proto-language: Proto-Uralic: Subdivisions: Sámi; Finnic; Mordvinic; Mari; Permic; Hungarian; Mansi; Khanty; Samoyedic; ISO 639-5: urj: Glottolog: ural1272
- One of the world's primary language families
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
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.