Uralic languages

E27768

Uralic languages are a family of languages spoken across Northern Eurasia, including Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian, known for their agglutinative morphology and complex case systems.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uralic language family
language family
alternativeName Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic languages
Uralic languages
surface form: "Uralic"
hasCharacteristic agglutinative morphology
consonant gradation in some branches
extensive use of suffixes
lack of grammatical gender in most members
possessive suffixes
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich case systems
vowel harmony
hasEstimatedSpeakers over 25 million speakers
hasGeographicDistribution Baltic Sea coast region
surface form: "Baltic region"

Carpathian Basin
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Ural region
surface form: "Ural Mountains region"

Volga region
Western Siberia
hasMajorBranch Finnic languages
Permic languages
Sami languages
Samoyedic languages
Ugric languages
Finnic languages
surface form: "Volga-Finnic languages"
hasMember Enets language
Erzya language
Estonian language
Finnish language
Hungarian language
Inari Sámi
surface form: "Inari Sami language"

Votic language
surface form: "Ingrian language"

Karelian language
Mansi language
surface form: "Khanty language"

Permic languages
surface form: "Komi-Permyak language"

Permic languages
surface form: "Komi-Zyrian language"

Livonian language
Lule Sami language
Mansi language
Mari language
Moksha language
Nenets
surface form: "Nenets language"

Nganasan language
Northern Sami language
Selkup
surface form: "Selkup language"

Skolt Sami language
Southern Sami language
Udmurt language
Veps language
Votic language
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Uralic language
hasSubfamily Finno-Ugric languages
Samoyedic languages
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script
isNotGeneticallyRelatedTo Indo-European language family
surface form: "Indo-European languages"
isSpokenIn Estonia
Finland
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Sweden

Referenced by (45)

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

Uralic languages alternativeName Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Estonian language family Uralic languages
Karelian language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Livonian language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Ludian language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Mansi language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Pite Sámi family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
South Estonian language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Kven language hasLanguageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Finno-Ugric languages isSubjectOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic linguistics"
Enets languageFamily Uralic languages
Finnic languages languageFamily Uralic languages
Finns languageFamily Uralic languages
Hungarian language languageFamily Uralic languages
Hungarians languageFamily Uralic languages
Inari Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
Ingrian Finns languageFamily Uralic languages
Kildin Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Kven languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Kven people languageFamily Uralic languages
Mansi language languageFamily Uralic languages
Middle Estonian languageFamily Uralic languages
Nenets languageFamily Uralic languages
Permic languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Sami languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Sami people languageFamily Uralic languages
Selkup languageFamily Uralic languages
Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
Ter Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
Ter Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
Ume Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
Nganasan linguisticFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic"
Finnic languages partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Finno-Ugric languages partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Permic languages partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Proto-Finnic language partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Sami languages partOf Uralic languages
Seto partOf Uralic languages
Ugric languages partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Finnic languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Finno-Ugric languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Permic languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Sami languages subclassOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: "Uralic language family"
Cyrillic script usedBy Uralic languages

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