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The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around 7 million speakers, who live mainly in Finland and Estonia. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized.
- Uralic Languages
The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik; by some...
- Proto-Finnic Language
Proto-Finnic or Proto-Baltic-Finnic is the common ancestor...
- Ludic
Current distribution of Karelian and Ludic. Ludic, or...
- Ingrian
Ingrian and Votic villages at the beginning of the 21st...
- Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] ⓘ or suomen kieli...
- Uralic Languages
Finnish ( endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] ⓘ or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.
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.
Jan 31, 2019 · Learn the fascinating story of how the Hungarian and Finnish languages evolved from a common ancestor language despite their geographic isolation.
- Claire Weber
The vocabulary of the Finno-Ugric languages reflects a series of contacts with neighbouring non-Uralic peoples at different periods in history. Loanwords from Indo-Iranian seem to be the oldest. Finnish borrowed from Baltic languages in remote times and later from Germanic languages and Russian.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Finno-Ugric (IPA: /ˌfɪnoʊˈjuːɡrɪk/) is a group of languages in the Uralic language family, comprising Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and related languages. It comprises the Finno-Permic and Ugric language families.