Finno-Ugric language

The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic languages. It consists of several languages, notably Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian. Unlike most of the languages spoken in Europe, the Finno-Ugric languages are not part of the Indo-European family of languages. The "Urheimat" of the proto-language of the modern Finno-Ugric languages, the so-called Proto-Finno-Ugric, is believed to be on the western side of the Ural mountains 5000 years ago. There is evidence that before the arrival of Slavonic tribes to their present territory in Russia, a sprinkling of Finno-Ugrians inhabited the whole territory from the Urals to the Baltic Sea. There have been attempts to relate them to the Indo-European languages, but the about 40 similarities are not enough. Conversely, there have been suggestions (based on archeological evidence) that the Germanic languages evolved from an Indo-European language such as Celtic imposed on a Finnic substrate, but no satisfying proofs yet exist. The Finno-Ugric subfamily of the Uralic languages has the following members:\n* Finnic\n** Finno-Lappic\n*** Baltic Finnic:\n**** Finnish\n**** Estonian\n**** Karelian\n**** Meänkieli\n**** Veps - In danger of extinction\n**** Livonian - Almost extinct\n**** Votic - Almost extinct\n**** Izhorian - Almost extinct\n**** Ingrian Finnish\n**** Ludic\n*** Lappic\n**** Sami languages (or Lappish)\n***** Western Sami languages\n****** Lule Sami\n****** Northern Sami\n****** Pite Sami\n****** Southern Sami\n****** Ume Sami\n***** Eastern Sami languages\n****** Akkala Sami\n****** Inari Sami\n****** Kainuu Sami - Extinct\n****** Kemi Sami - Extinct\n****** Kildin Sami\n****** Skolt Sami\n****** Ter Sami\n** Volga-Finnic\n*** Mordvinic\n**** Erzya\n**** Moksha\n*** Mari or Cheremis (obsolete)\n** Permian-Finnic:\n*** Udmurt or Votyak (obsolete)\n*** Komi\n**** Komi-Permyak\n**** Komi-Zyrian\n* Ugric\n** Hungarian\n** Ob Ugric\n*** Khant or Ostyak (obsolete), see Khant\n*** Mansi or Vogul (obsolete), see Mansi

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\n* Uralic languages in the Hungarian Wikipedia (in Hungarian) Category:Finno-Ugric languages