Wikipedia: Finno-Ugric languages

Finno-Ugric languages
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The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic languages. It consists of several languages, notably Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian. Contrary to most of the languages spoken in Europe, the Finno-Ugric languages are not part of the Indo-European family of languages.

The "Urheimat" of the proto-language of the modern Finno-Ugric languages, the so-called Proto-Finno-Ugric, is believed to be on the western side of the Ural mountains 5000 years ago. There is evidence that before the arrival of Slavonic tribes to their present territory in Russia, a sprinkling of Finno-Ugrians inhabited the whole territory from the Urals to the Baltic Sea.

The Finno-Ugric subfamily of the Uralic languages has the following members:

Finno-permic
- Finno-cheremisic
  - Finno-mordvinic
    - Finno-Lappic
      - Baltic Finnic:
        Finnish
        Estonian
        Karelian
        Meänkieli
        Veps - In danger of extinction
        Livonian - Almost extinct
        Votic - Almost extinct
        Izhorian - Almost extinct
        Ingrian Finnish
      - Lappic
        Saami (or Lappish)
    - Mordvin
      - Erzya-Mordvin
      - Moksha-Mordvin
  - Mari or Cheremis
- Permic group:
  - Udmurt or Votyak
  - Komi-Permyak
  - Komi-Zyrian
Ugric
- Hungarian
- Ob Ugric
  - Khanty or Ostyak, see Khant
  - Mansi or Vogul