Uralic languages
The Uralic languages are a family of about 20 related languages spoken by circa 20 million people in eastern and northern Europe and in northwestern Asia. The best known members belong to the Finno-Ugric subfamily; the other subfamily is called Samoyedic. Merritt Ruhlen (A Guide to the World's Languages, Stanford UP, 1991) adds the Palaeosiberian language, Yukaghir as coordinate with Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric. There is some debate about a possible relationship between the family as a whole and the Altaic languages; a few scholars also consider the Uralic languages to be related to the Indo-European languages, see also Nostratic language.
The most spoken members of the family are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian.
Some characteristic features of these languages are:
External links
- Reliable information and links at:
- http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/fu.html
- http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/samoyed.html
Referenced By
Altaic | Altaic family | Altaic language | Altaic languages | Baltic States | Baltic state | Baltics | Class P: Language and Literature (Library of Congress classification) | Diachronic linguistics | European language | European languages | Family of languages | Finland/History | Finno-Ugrian languages | Finno-Ugric | Finno-Ugric language | Finno-Ugric languages | Finno Ugric | Historical-comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of Finland | HungarianLanguage | Hungarian Language | Language families | Language families and languages | Language family | Library of Congress Classification/Class P -- Language and Literature | Library of Congress Classification:Class P -- Language and Literature | List of ethnic groups | Magyar (language) | Nostratic | Nostratic language | Synharmonism | Ugro-Finnic languages | Ural-Altaic language | Ural-Altaic languages | Vowel harmony
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