Uralic language

Other forms: Uralic languages

Definitions of Uralic language

1. noun

   a family of Ural-Altaic languages
   synonyms: Uralic

   types:

   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)