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Uralic languages, Family of more than 20 languages spoken by some 25 million people in central and northern Eurasia. A primary division is between the Finno-Ugric languages, which account for most of the languages and speakers, and the Samoyedic languages. The latter languages have historically been spoken in the forest region of northern ...
Jun 2, 2020 · For a language family that isn’t as well known as the Romance languages or Germanic languages, the Uralic family is quite prolific: There are 38 Uralic languages still spoken today. Of these, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian probably the most well known. These are official languages of Finland, Estonia and Hungary (respectively), and all three ...
Indo-Uralic languages. Indo-Uralic is a highly controversial linguistic hypothesis proposing a genealogical family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic. [2] The suggestion of a genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic is often credited to the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336), though an even earlier ...
Ural-Altaic languages. Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Altaic, Uraltaic, or Turanic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages. It is generally now agreed that even the Altaic languages do not share a common descent: the similarities among Turkic, Mongolic and ...
The Uralic Languages. Daniel Mario Abondolo. Taylor & Francis, 1998 - Foreign Language Study - 619 pages. This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-groupings from Finnish to Selkup. Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the Uralic languages have important cultural and social significance in ...
Mar 24, 2022 · Abstract. The Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages, the second largest language family in Europe, including three European nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian) and a number of minority languages in Northern Eurasia, look back to a long history of research. However, a major part of this research has been conducted within diverse ...
Aug 1, 2017 · The Uralic language encompasses a group of 38 languages spoken by an estimated 25 million people in Europe. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian have the largest number of speakers of the Uralic languages. The term 'Uralic' suggests that the regions where these languages are spoken lie on each side of the Ural Mountains.
