Ugric languages
E32561
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ugric languages canonical | 12 |
| Ob-Ugric | 1 |
| 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) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Ugric languages Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ugrian languages
this entity surface form:
Ob-Ugric languages
this entity surface form:
Ob-Ugric