Finno-Permic
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language family
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Northern Fennoscandia , Baltic states , Southwestern, Southeastern, and Ural region of Russia
- Ethnicity
- Finnic peoples
- Linguistic classification
- Uralic Finno-Ugric ? Finno-Permic
- Subdivisions
- Permic Balto-Finnic Sámi Mari Mordvin
- Glottolog
- None
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The Finno-Permic or Finno-Permian languages, sometimes just Finnic languages, are a proposed subdivision of the Uralic languages which comprise the Balto-Finnic languages, Sámi languages, Mordvinic languages, Mari language, Permic languages and likely a number of extinct languages. In the traditional taxonomy of the Uralic languages, Finno-Permic is estimated to have split from Finno-Ugric around 3000–2500 BC, and branched into Permic languages and Finno-Volgaic languages around 2000 BC. Nowadays the validity of the group as a taxonomical entity is being questioned, and the interrelationships of its five branches are debated with little consensus.
The term Finnic languages has often been used to designate all the Finno-Permic languages, with the term Balto-Finnic used to disambiguate the Finnic languages proper. However, in many works, Finnic refers to the Baltic-Finnic languages alone.