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100-word Swadesh lists for certain Finno-Ugric languages can be compared and contrasted at the Rosetta Project website: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Erzya. Speakers. The four largest ethnic groups that speak Finno-Ugric languages are the Hungarians (14.5 million), Finns (6.5 million), Estonians (1.1 million), and Mordvins (0.85
- 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 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
Sometimes the term “Finno-Ugric” refers to all Uralic peoples, including Samoyedic peoples. According to recent studies, the peoples speaking Finno-Ugric languages have inhabited Europe for about ten millennia. It seems that before the “Great Migration”, mainly Finno-Ugric languages were spoken in Eastern and Central Europe.
Projects Publications. Finno-Ugrian language studies is a discipline that examines the structure and history of Finno-Ugrian languages, giving consideration to both the methodological starting points developed by general linguistics and the special characteristics of the material and spiritual culture of the peoples that speak these languages.