• Proto-Finnic or Proto-Baltic-Finnic is the common ancestor of the Finnic languages, which include the national languages Finnish and Estonian. Proto-Finnic...
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    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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  • Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family. The hypothetical language is thought to have been...
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    Baltic-Finnic languages.) The proposed raising of *o has been alternatively interpreted instead as a lowering *u → *o in Samoyedic (PU *lumi → *lomə → Proto-Samoyedic...
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  • Proto-Samic Proto-Turkic Proto-Mongolic Proto-Tungusic Proto-Koreanic Proto-Japonic Proto-Yeniseian Proto-Uralic Proto-Finno-Ugric [ru] Proto-Finnic Proto-Samic...
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    classifications treat the five branches of Finno-Permic as follows. Proto-Finnic language Taagepera, Rein (1999). The Finno-Ugric republics and the Russian...
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  • other Finnic languages. Cognates of the root are also found in the Mordvinic languages and it is thus dated even beyond the era of the Proto-Finnic language...
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    suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and...
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  • Concurrently, Finnic languages that would eventually end up becoming modern-day Finnish and Karelian were being adopted in the southern end of the Proto-Sámi area...
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    Palaeo-Laplandic Pre-Finnic substrate – underlies the development of Proto-Finnic; possibly related to the substrate in Sami Vasconic substratum hypothesis...
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    (Erzya and Moksha) were considered to form a Volga-Finnic or Volgaic group within the Uralic language family, accepted by linguists like Robert Austerlitz...
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    Federation. Still smaller minority languages are Sámi languages of the northern Fennoscandia; other members of the Finnic languages, ranging from Livonian in northern...
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    survived with relatively little change as borrowings in Finnic languages. Some of these may be of Proto-Germanic origin or older still, but others reflect...
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    Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages...
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    is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family and is not related to the Baltic languages, which are Indo-European. The Mordvinic languages, spoken...
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    keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ) is a Uralic language belonging to the Finnic branch of the family and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin...
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    deriving from a common Proto-Sami-Finnic language (M. Korhonen 1981). However, reconstruction of any basic proto-languages in the Uralic family have...
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    the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages, and is closely related to Finnish. Finnish and Karelian have common ancestry in the Proto-Karelian language spoken...
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    group (M-II) South-Eastern group (M-III) (Finnic dialect continuum) Proto-Finnic (ancestral) Inland Finnic South Estonian (Lõuna Eesti kiil) Eastern South...
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    inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Finnic languages. They include the Finns, Estonians (including Võros and Setos), Karelians...
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    Proto-Baltic (PB, PBl, Common Baltic) is the unattested, reconstructed ancestral proto-language of all Baltic languages. It is not attested in writing...
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    harmony that was present in Proto-Finnic.[clarification needed] This distinguishes it from Estonian and some other Finnic languages, which have lost it. The...
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  • Verner's law (category Articles containing Proto-Germanic-language text)
    that suffixal gradation in Finnic represents Germanic influence, in particular reflecting the pronunciation of Proto-Finnic by a hypothetical Germanic-speaking...
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  • Unna ja Nuuk (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    etc. Much of the film's dialogue is written in a version of the Proto-Finnic language, which was reconstructed by lector Jouko Koivisto. The movie had...
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    heaviest influence has been on the Finnic languages, which have received hundreds of Proto-Germanic or pre-Proto-Germanic loanwords. Well-known examples...
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    ˈmɑːˌt͡ɕeːlʲi][citation needed], is a Finnic language spoken by the Votes of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in...
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    Languages. London & New York: Routledge. p. 4. [...] the idea, once widely-held, that there was a common Mordva-Mari protolanguage (so-called 'proto-Volgaic')...
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    vepsän keli, or vepsä), is a Finnic language from the Uralic language family, that is spoken by Vepsians. The language is written in the Latin script...
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    especially in toponymy. The common ancestor of Finnic and Samic is traditionally known as Early Proto-Finnic (Finnish: varhaiskantasuomi). Its phonology...
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    Finnic language in the Uralic language family or a Karelian dialect. It is transitional between the Olonets Karelian language and the Veps language....
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