Finno-Ugric is a grouping of languages in the
Uralic language family, comprising
Hungarian,
Finnish and
Estonian, and related languages. It comprises the
Finno-Permic and
Ugric language families. The term Finno-Ugric is somewhat controversial today, with many
historical linguists feeling that the
Finno-Permic languages are as distinct from
Ugric languages as are the
Samoyedic languages spoken in Siberia. Thus it is felt that the early Finno-Permic and Ugric groups may have diffused from
proto-Uralic at the same time as proto-Samoyedic. It was earlier thought that the Finno-Ugric had separated first, and the branching into Ugric and Finno-Permic took place later, but this does not have strong support in the linguistic data. However, some proponents of the Finno-Ugric grouping have provided extra-linguistic arguments by marshalling archaeological evidence of separate
Finno-Ugric peoples originally living across a large swathe of Northern Europe.
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