Uralic languages

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The Uralic languages ( yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages ( yoor-AY-lee-ən), are a language family native to northern Eurasia. The largest Uralic languages by number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. Other Uralic languages with over 100,000 speakers are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt, and Komi, all of which are spoken in European Russia. Still smaller minority languages are the Sámi languages of 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. The name Uralic derives from the family's purported "original homeland" (Urheimat) hypothesized to have been somewhere in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, and was first proposed by Julius Klaproth in Asia Polyglotta (1823). Finno-Ugric is sometimes used as a synonym for Uralic but more accurately...

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