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The members of the Finno-Ugric (or Uralic) language family are:

Baltic-Finnic group: Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Ludic/Ludian, Veps/Vepsian, Ingrian, Livonian and Votic/Votian;

Sami (Lapp): a group of dialects or closely related languages;

Mari (Cheremis);

Mordvin: Erzya and Moksha;

Permic/Permian group: Komi (Zyryan), Permyak and Udmurt (Votyak);

Ugric group: Hungarian, Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul);

Samoyedic group: Nenets (Yurak), Enets (Yenisey Samoyed), Nganasan (Tavgy) and Selkup (Ostyak Samoyed).

The Samoyedic group is traditionally classified as a separate language family constituting the Uralic group together with Finno-Ugric languages. However, many linguists now use the terms "Finno-Ugric" and "Uralic" as synonyms, and this is is also the naming convention used in the ODP.


Academic Departments

Web pages of university departments specializing in the teaching of Uralic and/or Finno-Ugric linguistics.

Estonian

Estonian is a Uralic language in the family of Finnic languages. Estonian is the official language of the Republic of Estonia.

Finnish

Please submit only sites describing university programs and language schools offering courses in the Finnish language to nonspeakers of Finnish. Online language sites or other Finnish teaching sites should be added under Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Natural Languages: Finno-Ugric Languages: Finnish.

A Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Finland but also by minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and North America.

Journals

Academic journals devoted completely or in large part to the study of Uralic (or Finno-Ugric) languages and literatures.

Khanty

Material on the Khanty (Ostyak) language, spoken in NW Siberia, just E of the Ural Mountains.

Komi

Information about the Komi (Ziryene) language.

Livonian

Livonian is nearly extinct, spoken by a few people in Latvia. It used to be the language of Livonia.

Mansi

Also known as Vogul.

Mari

Sites devoted to the Mari language.

Nganasan

One of the Samoyedic branch ofthe Uralic languages, spoken in Siberia. Also known as Tavgi.

South Estonian

This category is for sites about South Estonian languages and dialects. South Estonian is an umbrella notion for all south Estonian languages and dialects. These are Võro, Seto, Mulgi and Tartu.

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