Uralic
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The Uralic language family includes languages spoken across northern Eurasia, primarily in Finland, Hungary, and Russia, and encompasses well-known languages like Finnish and Hungarian alongside numerous smaller regional languages. Understanding Uralic languages matters because they provide insights into the history and migration patterns of peoples across a vast geographic region, and they represent a distinct linguistic tradition separate from the Indo-European languages that dominate most of Europe.
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The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with over 100,000 speakers are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt and Komi spoken in European Russia. Still smaller minority languages are Sámi languages of the northern Fennoscandia; other members of the Finnic languages, ranging from Livonian in northern Latvia to Karelian in northwesternmost Russia; the Samoyedic languages; and Mansi and Khanty of Western Siberia, which are members of the Ugric branch along with Hungarian.