The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/; sometimes called Uralian languages /jʊəˈreɪliən/) form a language family of 38[1] languages spoken natively by approximately 25 million people, predominantly in Europe (over 99% of the family's speakers) and northern Asia (less than 1%). The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for nearly 60% of speakers), Finnish, and Estonian. Other significant languages with fewer speakers are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt, Sami, Komi, and Vepsian, all of which are spoken in northern regions of Scandinavia and the Russian Federation.
The name "Uralic" derives from the family's purported "original homeland" (Urheimat) hypothesized to have been somewhere in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains.
Finno-Ugric is sometimes used as a synonym for Uralic, though Finno-Ugric is widely understood to exclude the Samoyedic languages.[2] Scholars who do not accept the traditional notion that Samoyedic split first from the rest of the Uralic family may treat the terms as synonymous.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
Indo-Uralic is a controversial hypothetical language family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic.[2]
The suggestion of a genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic is often credited to the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336), though an even earlier version was proposed by Finnish linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853 and 1863.[3] Both were received with little enthusiasm. Since then, the predominant opinion in the linguistic community has remained that the evidence for such a relationship is insufficient. However, quite a few prominent linguists have always taken the contrary view (e.g. Henry Sweet, Holger Pedersen, Björn Collinder, Warren Cowgill, Jochem Schindler, Eugene Helimski, Frederik Kortlandt and Alwin Kloekhorst).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages#Origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Caucasian_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Samoyedic_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian_languages
Similarities have long been noted between the verb conjugation systems of Uralic languages (e.g. that of Finnish) and Indo-European languages (e.g. those of Latin, Russian, and Lithuanian). Although it would not be uncommon for a language to borrow heavily from the vocabulary of another language (as in the cases of English from French, Persian from Arabic, and Korean from Chinese), it would be extremely unusual for a language to borrow its basic system of verb conjugation from another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_verb_conjugation
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