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Definition of Finno-Ugric
1. Noun. A family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions).
Generic synonyms: Uralic, Uralic Language
Specialized synonyms: Fennic, Finnic, Non-ugric, Ugrian, Ugric
Definition of Finno-Ugric
1. Proper noun. Any of a group of languages that, with Samoyedic make up the Uralic family; they are spoken in a broad swathe from Siberia to Norway. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to Finno-Ugric languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finno-Ugric
Literary usage of Finno-Ugric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the Royal by Friedrich Max Müller (1899)
"Among these we can distinguish three distinct nuclei, the Samoyedic, the Altaic,
comprising the Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, and the Finno- Ugric. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The Finno-Ugric languages are generally considered as a division of the ...
A connexion between the Finno-Ugric and Dravidian languages has also been ..."
3. A Finnish Grammar by Charles Eliot (1890)
"Samoyede is also more like the Turkish than the Finno-Ugric language in its power
of adding predicative and temporal suffixes to nouns (which implies a want ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Finno-Ugric must have separated much earlier, Mongolie much later, ... It may
therefore be concluded that the Finno-Ugric migrations to the north and west ..."
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