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Uralic is a language family located in Northern Eurasia, in the countries of Finland, Estonia, Hungary (where Uralic languages are spoken by the majority of the population), in other countries Uralic languages are spoken by a minority of the population, these languages are spoken in far-northern Norway (in most of the Finnmark region and other regions of the far-north), in far-northern Sweden (in some areas of Norrland), and Russia (where Uralic languages are also spoken by a minority of its population, although there is a significant number of speakers in some Federal subjects - republics and autonomous districts or autonomous okrugs of Northern Russia, these languages are spoken in Udmurtia, Komi Republic, Mordvinia, Mari-El, Karelia, in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Taymyr Autonomous Okrug and also in the former area of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, now part of the Perm Krai, other areas where Uralic languages are spoken in Russia are for example the Kola Peninsula). In Latvia, in some of the far-northern coastal areas of Courland (Kurzeme) region, an extinct Uralic language was spoken - Livonian.

Uralic languages are spoken by about 25 million people. Main Uralic languages in number of speakers are Hungarian (12-13 million), Finnish (5.4 million) and Estonian (1.1 million), that are also national and official languages of sovereign states.

Geographical distribution of the Uralic languages

Hypothetical ancestors

Hypothetical relation to other language families and their proto-languages.

Ancestral

Samoyedic

Current distribution of the Samoyedic languages

Ob-Ugric

Dialects of Mansi (and Khanty).
  Northern Mansi
  Western and Southern Mansi
  Eastern Mansi
Dialects of Khanty (and Mansi):
  Obdorsk (Salekhard) dialect
  Ob dialects
  Southern (Irtysh) Khanty
  Surgut dialects
  Far Eastern (Vakh-Vasyugan) dialects

Magyar

The Hungarian dialects in Hungary and other countries according to an older Hungarian distribution

Permic (Bjarmian)

Geographical distribution of Permic languages.
  • Proto-Permic (extinct)
    • Udmurt (Votyak) (Udmurt kyl)
      • Southern Udmurt
      • Northern Udmurt (spoken along Cheptsa River)
      • Besermyan (spoken by the strongly Turkified Besermyans)
    • Komi (Komi kyv / Komi kɨv) (a group of related languages, not a single language)
      • Komi-Permyak (Perem Komi kɨv)
        • Southern
          • (/v/ type: вым /vɨm/, вӧв /vɘv/, вӧвтӧг /vɘvtɘg/, вӧвӧн /vɘvɘn/)
            • Kudymkar-Inva
            • Lower Inva
          • Southern (/l/ type: лым /lɨm/, вӧл /vɘl/, вӧлтӧг /vɘltɘg/, вӧлӧн /vɘlɘn/)
            • On
            • Nerdva
        • Northern
          • (/l/ type: лым /lɨm/ "snow", вӧл /vɘl/ "a horse", вӧлтӧг /vɘltɘg/ "without a horse", вӧлӧн /vɘlɘn/ "with a horse, on a horse")
            • Upper Lupya
            • Mysy (former rural council)
            • Kosa-Kama
            • Kochevo
            • Zyuzdino (Afanasyevo)
            • Yazva
      • Komi-Yodyak (Yodzyak, Komi-Jazva) (Komi-Yodz kyl)
      • Komi-Zyryan (Komi, Komi-Zyrian, Zyrian) (basis of the standard and literary language) (Komi kyv / Komi kɨv)
        • Prisyktyvkarsky
        • Lower Vychegdan
        • Central Vychegdan
        • Luzsko-letsky
        • Upper Sysolan
        • Upper Vychegdan
        • Pechoran
        • Izhemsky
        • Vymsky
        • Udorsky

Mari

The four main dialects of Mari.
  Hill Mari
  North-Western Mari
  Meadow Mari
  Eastern Mari

(Mari dialect continuum)

Mordvinic

Mordvinic languages in Mordovia
  Moksha
Blue: Erzya
  • Proto-Mordvinic (extinct)
    • Erzya (Erzänj kelj)
      • Central group (E-I)
      • Western group (E-II)
      • Northern group (E-III)
      • Southeastern group (E-IV)
      • Far Western group (E-V)
    • Moksha (Mokšenj kälj)
      • Central group (M-I)
      • Western group (M-II)
      • South-Eastern group (M-III)

Finnic

Geographical distribution of Finnic languages.
Map of Finnish dialects
North Estonian and South Estonian languages.

(Finnic dialect continuum)

Sami

Recent distribution of the Sami languages: 1. Southern Sami, 2. Ume Sami, 3. Pite Sami, 4. Lule Sami, 5. Northern Sami, 6. Skolt Sami, 7. Inari Sami, 8. Kildin Sami, 9. Ter Sami. Darkened area represents municipalities that recognize Sami as an official or minority language.

(Sami dialect continuum)

Unclassified Uralic languages (all extinct)

Uralic languages whose relationship to other languages in the family is unclear

  • Merya (spoken by the Merya, may have been a western branch of the Mari or close to the Mordvinic languages, may have been a transitional language between the Volga and the Baltic Finns)
  • Meshcherian (spoken by the Meshchera, may have been related to the Mordvinic languages or to the Permic languages)
  • Murom (spoken by the Muroma, may have been a language close to the Merya and a transitional language between the Volga and the Baltic Finns)

See also

References

  • Abondolo, Daniel M. (editor). 1998. The Uralic Languages. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08198-X.
  • Collinder, Björn. 1955. Fenno-Ugric Vocabulary: An Etymological Dictionary of the Uralic Languages. (Collective work.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Viksell. (Second, revised edition: Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977.)
  • Collinder, Björn. 1957. Survey of the Uralic Languages. Stockholm.
  • Collinder, Björn. 1960. Comparative Grammar of the Uralic Languages. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell
  • Comrie, Bernhard. 1988. "General Features of the Uralic Languages." In The Uralic Languages, edited by Denis Sinor, pp. 451–477. Leiden: Brill.
  • Décsy, Gyula. 1990. The Uralic Protolanguage: A Comprehensive Reconstruction. Bloomington, Indiana.
  • Hajdu, Péter. 1963. Finnugor népek és nyelvek. Budapest: Gondolat kiadó.
  • Helimski, Eugene. Comparative Linguistics, Uralic Studies. Lectures and Articles. Moscow. 2000. (Russian: Хелимский Е.А. Компаративистика, уралистика. Лекции и статьи. М., 2000.)
  • Laakso, Johanna. 1992. Uralilaiset kansat ('Uralic Peoples'). Porvoo – Helsinki – Juva. ISBN 951-0-16485-2.
  • Korhonen, Mikko. 1986. Finno-Ugrian Language Studies in Finland 1828-1918. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica. ISBN 951-653-135-0.
  • Napolskikh, Vladimir. The First Stages of Origin of People of Uralic Language Family: Material of Mythological Reconstruction. Moscow, 1991. (Russian: Напольских В. В. Древнейшие этапы происхождения народов уральской языковой семьи: данные мифологической реконструкции. М., 1991.)
  • Rédei, Károly (editor). 1986–88. Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch ('Uralic Etymological Dictionary'). Budapest.
  • Wickman, Bo (1988). "The History of Uralic Languages". In Sinor, Denis (ed.). The Uralic Languages: Description, History, and Foreign Influences. Leiden: Brill. pp. 792–818. ISBN 978-90-04-07741-6. OCLC 16580570. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External classification

  • Sauvageot, Aurélien. 1930. Recherches sur le vocabulaire des langues ouralo-altaïques ('Research on the Vocabulary of the Uralo-Altaic Languages'). Paris.

Linguistic issues

  • Künnap, A. 2000. Contact-induced Perspectives in Uralic Linguistics. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 39. München: LINCOM Europa. ISBN 3-89586-964-3.
  • Wickman, Bo. 1955. The Form of the Object in the Uralic Languages. Uppsala: Lundequistska bokhandeln.
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