The Ugric or Ugrian languages (/ˈjuːɡrɪk, ˈuː-/[1] or /ˈjuːɡriən, ˈuː-/[2]) 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 northern Russia.
Ugric includes three subgroups: Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi. The last two have traditionally been considered single languages, though their main dialects are sufficiently distinct that they may also be considered small subfamilies of three to four languages each. A common Proto-Ugric language is posited to have been spoken from the end of the 3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in Western Siberia, east of the southern Ural Mountains. Of the three languages, Khanty and Mansi have traditionally been set apart from Hungarian as Ob-Ugric, though features uniting Mansi and Hungarian in particular are known as well.
The Ugric language family was first noticed by Pope Pius II in his Cosmographia (1458), when he wrote that the Ostyaks (Khanty) and Voguls (Mansi) spoke a language like that of the Hungarians.[3]
| Ugric | |
|---|---|
| Ugrian | |
| (controversial) | |
| Geographic distribution | Hungary and Western Siberia |
| Linguistic classification | Uralic
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | None |
 The Ugric languages | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugric_languages
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