Finno-Volgaic languages
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| Geographic distribution | Northern Fennoscandia, Baltic states, Southwestern and Southeastern Russia |
| Linguistic classification | Uralic
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| ISO 639-2 / 5 | fiu |
Finno-Volgaic are a subgrouping of the Uralic languages that nowadays comprises the Baltic-Finnic languages, Sami languages, Mordvinic languages and the Mari language. It is traditionally estimated to have branched from Finno-Permic languages about 2000 BC.[1][2][3]
Baltic-Finnic and Sami languages are sometimes grouped together under Finno-Lappic languages, while Mordvinic and Mari were formerly grouped together as Volga-Finnic languages. The current stage of research rejects Volga-Finnic, while the validity of Finno-Lappic, Finno-Volgaic and Finno-Permic remains disputed.[4]
Only a single uniting phonological feature of the Finno-Volgaic languages has been proposed: the loss of the consonant *w before rounded vowels.
See also
References
- ^ Differentiation of Uralic languages over time
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe
- ^ The Finno-ugric republics and the Russian state By Rein Taagepera; ISBN 0415919770; p. 33
- ^ Salminen, Tapani 2002: Problems in the taxonomy of the Uralic languages in the light of modern comparative studies. http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/kuzn.html
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