Ugric languages

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The Ugric languages are a small branch of the Uralic language family that includes Hungarian and its closest linguistic relatives, spoken historically in parts of Central and Western Siberia.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Ob-Ugric languages 1
Ugrian languages 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uralic languages subgroup
branch of language family
alternativeName Ugric languages
surface form: Ugrian languages
arealContact Iranian languages (historically for Hungarian)
Slavic languages (especially for Hungarian)
Turkic languages (especially for Hungarian)
classificationStatus generally accepted subgroup of Uralic
geographicDistribution Central Europe
Ob River region
Western Siberia
grammaticalFeature definite–indefinite conjugation (especially in Hungarian and Ob-Ugric)
lack of grammatical gender
possessive suffixes
hasMember Hungarian language
Mansi language
surface form: Khanty language

Mansi language
Ob-Ugric languages
hasSubgroup Ugric languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ob-Ugric languages
historicalHomelandOfObUgric Ob River region
surface form: Ob River basin
historicalRegion Siberia
surface form: Central Siberia

Western Siberia
lexicalSimilarity high between Mansi and Khanty
moderate between Hungarian and Ob-Ugric languages
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
postpositions
rich case system
subject–object–verb word order (SOV) in Ob-Ugric
subject–verb–object word order (SVO) in Hungarian
vowel harmony
majorLanguage Hungarian language
minorityLanguage Mansi language
surface form: Khanty language

Mansi language
partOf Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic language family
reconstructedAncestor Proto-Ugric language
regionOfMajorLanguage Carpathian Basin
Hungary
Transylvania
researchField Uralic linguistics
sharesCommonAncestorWith Finnic languages
Permic languages
Samoyedic languages
spokenBy Hungarians
Khanty people
Selkup
surface form: Mansi people
status one major national language (Hungarian) and several minority languages
subclassOf Finno-Ugric languages
timeDepthOfDivergence late 1st millennium BCE to early 1st millennium CE (approximate, debated)
typologicalClassification agglutinative languages
writingSystemUsedBy Cyrillic script (some Ob-Ugric languages)
Latin script (Hungarian)

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

Ugric languages alternativeName Ugric languages
this entity surface form: Ugrian languages
Uralic languages hasMajorBranch Ugric languages
Ugric languages hasSubgroup Ugric languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ob-Ugric languages
Hungarians languageBranch Ugric languages
Hungary nationalLanguageBranch Ugric languages