Ugric
Speech parts
1. Ugric - Adjective
2. Ugric - Proper noun
Meaning
Ugric (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to a group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.
Ugric
A group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.
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Agricultural words are about 50% r-Turkic and 50% Slavic; pastoral terms are more r-Turkic, less Ugric and less Slavic.
Extending this approach to cover the Samoyedic languages suggests affinity with Ugric, resulting in the aforementioned East Uralic grouping, as it also shares the same sibilant developments.
In: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, vol. 57 however fails to find support for Finno-Ugric and Ugric, suggesting four lexically distinct branches (Finno-Permic, Hungarian, Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic).
Linguistic roots common to both branches of the traditional Finno-Ugric language tree ( Finno-Permic and Ugric ) are distant.
Hungarian has traditionally been assigned to a Ugric branch within Uralic/Finno-Ugric, along with the Mansi and Khanty languages of western Siberia ( Khanty–Mansia region), but it is no longer clear that it is a valid group.
In Hungarian, Iranian loans date back to the time immediately following the breakup of Ugric and probably span well over a millennium.