Uralic

Introduction

The Uralic languages constitute a language family of 39 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The name "Uralic" refers to the suggested original homeland of the Uralic family, which was often located in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains.

The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt.

Geographic distribution

Languages tree

Yellow = the area of continuous Slavic population after early expansion.
Uralic languages came early in contact with Slavic languages and
many Uralic languages (tribes) were assimilated.
On the map the following Uralic tribes are marked in blue:
Ves' (Vepsians), Vod (Votic), Mari, Merya, Muromian, and Meshcherian.

• Finnic (11 languages)
• Finno-Ugric
  • Ugric
    • Hungarian
      • Hungarian
• Mari
  • Mari, Eastern
  • Mari, Western
• Mordvin
  • Moksha
  • Erzya
• Extinct Finno-Volgaic languages of uncertain position
  • Merya † (17th century)
  • Muromian † (11th century)
  • Meshcherian † (16th century)
• Permian
  • Komi
    • Komi-Permyak
    • Komi-Zyrian
  • Udmurt
• Sami (11 languages)
• Samoyed
  • Enets, Forest
  • Enets, Tundra
  • Mator
  • Nganasan
  • Selkup
  • Kamas
  • Nenets
• Khanty
• Mansi

(†—Extinct language)

Uralic languages in WikiVerb

External References

• The Endangered Uralic Peoples(approve sites)