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12 hours ago · The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages / j ʊəˈr eɪ l i ə n / yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers ...
- Finnic Languages
The Finnic languages are located at the western end of the...
- Samoyedic Languages
The Samoyedic (/ ˌ s æ m ə ˈ j ɛ d ɪ k,-m ɔɪ-/) or Samoyed...
- Moksha
Moksha (мокшень кяль, mokšəń käĺ, pronounced ['mɔkʃənʲ...
- Mansi
The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Russia...
- Permic
The Permic or Permian languages are a branch of the Uralic...
- Khanty
Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as...
- Proto-Uralic Language
Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language...
- Seima-Turbino Phenomenon
Seima-Turbino material culture and "Neo-Siberian" ancestry...
- Uralic–Yukaghir
Uralic–Yukaghir, also known as Uralo-Yukaghir, is a proposed...
- Komi
Komi has 17 cases, with a rich inventory of locative cases....
- Finnic Languages
5 days ago · Finnish language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken in Finland. At the beginning of the 19th century, Finnish had no official status, with Swedish being used in Finnish education, government, and literature. The publication in 1835 of the Kalevala, a national epic poem based on Finnish folklore, aroused ...
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5 days ago · Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native tongue '') is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
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4 days ago · Show More. Hungarian language, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken primarily in Hungary but also in Slovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia, as well as in scattered groups elsewhere in the world. Hungarian belongs to the Ugric branch of Finno-Ugric, along with the Ob-Ugric languages, Mansi and Khanty, spoken in ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Cyrillic script spread throughout the East Slavic and some South Slavic territories, being adopted for writing local languages, such as Old East Slavic. Its adaptation to local languages produced a number of Cyrillic alphabets, discussed below. The early Cyrillic alphabet [30] [31] А.
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- Old Permic script
- Cyrillic
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Unlike most languages such as English, Finnish adpositions are an open class. In English and Swedish the class of words with meanings such as "under", "before", "above" is closed, meaning that new words in this class cannot be added to the language. I.e. those languages already contain all the adpositions that they will ever contain.
4 days ago · Ukrainian is a lineal descendant of the colloquial language used in Kievan Rus (10th–13th century). It is written in a form of the Cyrillic alphabet and is closely related to Russian and Belarusian, from which it was indistinguishable until the 12th or 13th century. Ukrainian resembles Russian less closely than does Belarusian, though all ...
