Uralic languages

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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.

Krakolye dialect languageFamily Uralic languages
Western Sami languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Western Sami languages languageFamily Uralic languages
South Karelian languageFamily Uralic languages
Nenets language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Southern Mansi languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Central Sami languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Central Sami languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Akkala Sami partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Akkala Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Selkup language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Livonian people traditionalLanguageFamily Uralic languages
Ingrian language languageFamily Uralic languages
Torne Valley Finnish languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Meän kieli languageFamily Uralic languages
Proto-Permic language partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Proto-Permic language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Proto-Permic language studiedIn Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic linguistics
Courland Livonian languageFamily Uralic languages
Southern Ume Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
Eastern Ter Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
Komi-Permyak language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Mordvinic languages subclassOf Uralic languages
Mordvinic languages languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Meadow Mari language partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Meadow Mari language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Hill Mari language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Hill Mari language languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Ume Sami language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Ter Sami language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Proto-Finno-Ugric language subdivisionOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Proto-Finno-Ugric language hasLanguageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Proto-Finno-Ugric language studiedIn Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic linguistics
Lule Sami area languageFamily Uralic languages
Kolt Saami family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Lule Sámi partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
Lule Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Nostratic hypothesis includesLanguageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Eastern Sami subclassOf Uralic languages
Eastern Sami languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
North Sámi partOf Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family
North Sámi languageFamily Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic
Western Sámi language subclassOf Uralic languages
Western Sámi language family Uralic languages
this entity surface form: Uralic language family