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The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language family references the location of the family's suggested Urheimat, which is often placed close to the

Ural mountains. Countries that are home to a significant number of

speakers of Uralic languages include: Estonia, Finland,

Hungary, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. The healthiest

Uralic languages, in terms of the number of native speakers and national identity, are Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian.

1 Family Tree

While the internal structure of the Uralic family has been under debate since the family was originally proposed, two linguistic genera ,

Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic,

are consistently recognized as being distinct from one another. Many efforts have been made to identify the relationship between the Uralic languages and languages generally thought to belong to the world's other major language families. Perhaps the most controversial is the relationship between the Uralic languages and the Altaic languagesAltaic is a putative language family which would include 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around central Asia. The relationships among these languages remain a matter of debate among historical linguists, and the existence of.

Theories that include the Uralic family as a node in a proposed super-family include the following:

2 Classification of Languages

The traditional classification of the Uralic languages is as follows. Obsolete names are displayed in italics.

Samoyedic

Finno-Ugric

Modern linguistic research has shown that Volgaic languages is a geographical classification rather than a linguistic one, because the Mordvinic languages are more closely related to the Finno-Lappic languages than the Mari languages.



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Uralic languagesThe Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language family references the location of the family's suggested Urheimat, which is often placed close to the Ural mountains.  


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