WebSámi languages (/ ˈ s ɑː m i / SAH-mee), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwestern Russia).There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several …

WebThe Samoyedic (/ ˌ s æ m ə ˈ j ɛ d ɪ k,-m ɔɪ-/) or Samoyed languages (/ ˈ s æ m ə ˌ j ɛ d,-m ɔɪ-/) are spoken around the Ural Mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 25,000 people altogether.They derive from a common ancestral language called Proto-Samoyedic, and form a branch of the Uralic languages.Having separated perhaps in the …

WebProto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family.The hypothetical language is believed to have been originally spoken in a small area in about 7000–2000 BCE, and expanded to give differentiated Proto-Languages.Some newer research has pushed the "Proto-Uralic homeland" east of the …

WebLudic, or Ludian, or Ludic Karelian (Luudi, Lyydi or lüüdi), is a Finnic language in the Uralic language family or a Karelian dialect.It is transitional between the Olonets Karelian language and the Veps language. It is spoken by 300 Karelians in the Republic of Karelia in Russia, near the southwestern shore of Lake Onega, including a few children.

WebFinnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish).In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with …

WebThe Ugric or Ugrian languages (/ ˈ juː ɡ r ɪ k, ˈ uː-/ or / ˈ juː ɡ r i ə n, ˈ uː-/) are a proposed branch of the Uralic language family.The name Ugric is derived from Ugrians, an archaic exonym for the Magyars (Hungarians) and Yugra, a region in northwest Russia.. Ugric includes three subgroups: Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi.The last two have traditionally …

WebThe Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli; Finnish: kveeni or kveenin kieli; Norwegian: kvensk) is a Finnic language or a group of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kven people.For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European …

WebVõro (Võro: võro kiilʼ [ˈvɤro kʲiːlʲ], Estonian: võru keel) is a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Traditionally, it has been considered a dialect of the South Estonian dialect group of the Estonian language, but nowadays it has its own literary standard and efforts have been undertaken to seek official recognition as an indigenous …

WebUralic 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 …

WebVotic, or Votian (vaďďa tšeeli, maatšeeli) [ˈvɑːdʔda ˈtʃɨlɨ, mɑːt.ʃɨlɨ], is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages.Votic is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, and is close to extinction.According to Arvo Survo, in 2021 Votic had only 4 …