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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Uralic languages canonical 70
Uralic language family 37
Uralic 33

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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

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Referenced by (145)

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

Proto-Uralic language partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Proto-Uralic language hasAlternativeName Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Common Uralic
Samoyedic languages partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Samoyedic languages languageBranchOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Udmurt language languageFamily Uralic languages
Mari language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Southern Sami language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Nganasan language languageFamily Uralic languages
Inkeri languageFamily Uralic languages
Estonians languageFamily Uralic languages
Erzya language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Northern Sami language family Uralic languages
subject surface form: Northern Sami
this entity surface form: Uralic
Khanty people languageFamily Uralic languages
Europeans speaksLanguageFamily Uralic languages
Proto-Ugric language partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
European literature languageFamily Uralic languages
Finno-Ugric peoples hasLinguisticFamily Uralic languages
Hill Mari isPartOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Meadow Mari languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Mari people languageFamily Uralic languages
Mordvins languageFamily Uralic languages
Izhorians languageFamily Uralic languages
Komi languageFamily Uralic languages
Eastern Sámi languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Eastern Sámi languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Eastern Sámi languages areStudiedIn Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic linguistics
Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi family Uralic languages
subject surface form: Ter Sámi
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
subject surface form: Ter Sámi
this entity surface form: Uralic
Lule Sami family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Castrén fieldOfWork Uralic languages
subject surface form: Matthias Alexander Castrén
Samoyed territories languageFamily Uralic languages
Elementa grammatices Syrjaenae relatedTo Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Sámi languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Varanger Kven languageFamily Uralic languages
Porsanger Kven hasLanguageFamily Uralic languages
Ludic people hasLanguageFamily Uralic languages
Ludian languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Khanty language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Khanty language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Northern Mansi languageFamily Uralic languages
Vogul language languageFamily Uralic languages
Central Ludian languageFamily Uralic languages
Eastern Mansi hasLanguageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Chud associatedWithLanguageFamily Uralic languages
North Karelian languageFamily Uralic languages
Olonets Karelian languageFamily Uralic languages
Northern Ume Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
Southern Ludian languageFamily Uralic languages