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    Indo-Uralic is a highly controversial linguistic hypothesis proposing a genealogical family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic. The suggestion of a...
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    language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages. It is generally now agreed that even the Altaic languages...
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  • neighboring languages being more similar than distant ones. Similarly to the situation for Proto-Indo-European, reconstructions of Proto-Uralic are traditionally...
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    The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages /jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken...
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  • Thumbnail for Uralic–Yukaghir languages
    Proto-Uralic and Proto-Yukaghir somewhere in Eastern Siberia. Indo-Uralic languages Ural–Altaic languages Uralo-Siberian languages Borean languages "Correlating...
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  • Thumbnail for Paleo-European languages
    languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic...
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    that these languages spread from a "refuge" area at the Last Glacial Maximum. Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Proto-Human...
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    Kartvelian, Indo-European and Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the...
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    of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages. Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based...
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  • Thumbnail for Proto-Uralic homeland
    original language dispersed geographically and divided into separate distinct languages. Various locations have been proposed to be the Proto-Uralic homeland...
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  • Anatolian languages may have split off a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language considerably earlier than the separation of the remaining Indo-European languages. The...
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    Vostiaks Eskimo–Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Ural–Altaic languages Uralic–Yukaghir languages Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric...
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  • Eskimo–Uralic languages Indo-Uralic languages Proto-Uralic homeland hypotheses Proto-Uralic language Uralic neopaganism Uralic Phonetic Alphabet Uralic–Yukaghir...
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    its descendants. It is the ancestor of Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages, and the Nuristani languages, predominantly spoken in the Southern Asian...
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  • Thumbnail for Ugric languages
    The Ugric or Ugrian languages (/ˈjuːɡrɪk, ˈuː-/ or /ˈjuːɡriən, ˈuː-/) are a proposed branch of the Uralic language family. Ugric includes three subgroups:...
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    Language (book) Indo-European copula Indo-European sound laws Indo-European studies Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages...
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  • Thumbnail for Eskimo–Uralic languages
    unrelated language families. In 1818, the Danish linguist Rasmus Rask grouped together the languages of Greenlandic and Finnish. The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis...
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  • the linguistic community. Nostratic languages Afroasiatic languages Indo-European languages Indo-Uralic languages Compare the leading specialist of Afroasiatic...
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    of Indo-European can be ruled out. Secondly, the words borrowed at an early date by Proto-Uralic, as well as those borrowed from Caucasian languages, indicate...
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  • Thumbnail for Sino-Uralic languages
    Sino-Uralic or Sino-Finnic is a long-range linguistic proposal that links the Sinitic languages (Chinese) and the Uralic languages. Sino-Uralic is proposed...
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    languages (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European...
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  • primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List...
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  • Thumbnail for Finnic languages
    The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There...
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  • Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use a single...
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    most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese,...
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  • Thumbnail for Pre-Indo-European languages
    The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia...
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  • Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Arabic Proto-Northeast Caucasian Proto-Uralic Proto-Finno-Ugric [ru] Proto-Finnic (Proto-Balto-Finnic) Proto-Samic Proto-Turkic...
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    Eskaleut languages to Yukaghir and the Uralic languages. More recently Joseph Greenberg (2000–2002) suggested grouping Eskaleut with all of the language families...
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    as a written language. The major families in terms of numbers are Indo-European, specifically Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages in South Asia;...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Indo-European languages
    This is a list of languages in the Indo-European language family. It contains a large number of individual languages, together spoken by roughly half the...
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