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Uralic language

DEFINITIONS OF: Uralic language

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n a family of Ural-Altaic languages

Synonyms:
Uralic
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Finno-Ugrian, Finno-Ugric
a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Lappic, Lappish
any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages
Samoyed, Samoyedic
the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
Fennic, Finnic, Non-Ugric
one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
Ugrian, Ugric
one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia
Lapp, Saame, Saami, Same, Sami
the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
Nenets, Nentsi, Nentsy, Yurak-Samoyed
a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia
Enets, Entsi, Entsy, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yeniseian
the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian
Nganasan
the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan
Ostyak-Samoyed, Selkup
the Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed
Type of:
Ural-Altaic
a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
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