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Finno-Ugric

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1. Finno-Ugric - Noun

2. Finno-Ugric - Adjective

3. Finno-Ugric - Proper noun

Meaning

a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)

Source: WordNet

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finno ugric

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Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask described what he vaguely called "Scythian" languages in 1834, which included Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Samoyedic, Eskimo, Caucasian, Basque and others. Source: Internet

A recent re-evaluation of the evidence Michalove, Peter A. (2002) The Classification of the Uralic Languages: Lexical Evidence from Finno-Ugric. Source: Internet

Janhunen (2007, 2009) citation citation notes a number of derivational innovations in Finno-Ugric, including *ńoma "hare" → *ńoma-la, (vs. Source: Internet

Below are the numbers 1 to 10 in several Finno-Ugric languages. Source: Internet

Especially in Finland there has been a growing tendency to reject the Finno-Ugric intermediate protolanguage. Source: Internet

Following an academic debate known as Az ugor-török háború ("the Ugric-Turkic battle"), the Finno-Ugric hypothesis was concluded the sounder of the two, foremost based on work by the German linguist József BudenzSUBST. Source: Internet

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