Finnic languages

E15028
branch of Uralic languages language group

The Finnic languages are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea, including languages such as Finnish and Estonian that share common structural and historical features.

Observed surface forms (12)

Surface form Occurrences
Baltic-Finnic languages 2
Northern Finnic 2
Northern Finnic languages 2
Balto-Finnic 1
Common Finnic 1
Eastern Finnic languages 1
Finnic 1
Finnic peoples 1
Finnic world 1
Karelian language 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Uralic languages ⓘ
language group ⓘ
hasMember Estonian language ⓘ
Finnish language ⓘ
Ingrian Finns ⓘ
surface form: Ingrian Finnish

Votic language ⓘ
surface form: Ingrian language

Karelian language ⓘ
Kven language ⓘ
Livonian language ⓘ
Ludian language ⓘ
Meänkieli ⓘ
Karelia ⓘ
surface form: Olonets Karelian

South Estonian language ⓘ
Estonian language ⓘ
surface form: Standard Estonian

Finnish language ⓘ
surface form: Standard Finnish

Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Veps language

Votic language ⓘ
hasSubgroup Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Finnic languages

Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Northern Finnic languages

Southern Finnic languages ⓘ
Western Finnic languages ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
historicalOrigin Proto-Finnic language ⓘ
influencedBy Baltic languages ⓘ
Germanic languages ⓘ
Slavic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Uralic languages ⓘ
partOf Uralic languages ⓘ
surface form: Uralic language family
relatedTo Permic languages ⓘ
Sami languages ⓘ
surface form: Samic languages

Volga-Finnic languages ⓘ
sharesFeatureWith Estonian language ⓘ
Finnish language ⓘ
Sami languages ⓘ
spokenInRegion Baltic Sea coast region ⓘ
surface form: Baltic Sea region

Estonia ⓘ
Finland ⓘ
Ingria ⓘ
Karelia ⓘ
Latvia ⓘ
Norway ⓘ
Sweden ⓘ
northwestern Russia ⓘ
subclassOf Uralic languages ⓘ
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
consonant gradation ⓘ
lack of grammatical gender ⓘ
postpositions and prepositions ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ
usedAsOfficialLanguageIn Estonia ⓘ
Finland ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Estonian language → belongsTo → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Baltic-Finnic languages
Ludian language → belongsTo → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Baltic-Finnic languages
Finnish language → belongsToBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Finnic languages
Finnish language → closelyRelatedTo → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Karelian language
Sami languages → closelyRelatedTo → Finnic languages ⓘ
Ingria → culturalRegionOf → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Finnic world
Ingria → ethnolinguisticRegionOf → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Finnic peoples
Proto-Finnic language → hasAlternativeName → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Common Finnic
Kven language → hasLanguageSubgroup → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Finnic
Uralic languages → hasMajorBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
Uralic languages → hasMajorBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Volga-Finnic languages
Finnic languages → hasMember → Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Veps language
Finnic languages → hasSubgroup → Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Finnic languages
Finnic languages → hasSubgroup → Finnic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Finnic languages
Ludian language → languageBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Finnic
Middle Estonian → languageBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
Ingrian Finns → languageFamily → Finnic languages ⓘ
Kven people → languageFamily → Finnic languages ⓘ
Livonian language → languageFamilyBranch → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Balto-Finnic
Finnish language → languageSubfamily → Finnic languages ⓘ
Kven → languageSubfamily → Finnic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Finnic
Seto → partOf → Finnic languages ⓘ
Ugric languages → sharesCommonAncestorWith → Finnic languages ⓘ
Proto-Finnic language → subfamilyOf → Finnic languages ⓘ