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	Encyclopedia: Finno-Ugric languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether.
		Ugric (Ugrian) Ugric languages or Ugrian languages are generally held to be a branch of Finno-Ugric languages.
		Geographical distribution of Yukaghir, Finnic, Ugric and Samoyedic languages The Yukaghir languages are a family of related languages spoken in Russia by the Yukaghir, a Siberian people, living in the basin of the Kolyma River.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Finno_Ugric-languages (5469 words)

	AllRefer.com - Finno-Ugric languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		The Finno-Ugric group of languages can be divided into two subgroups, Finnic and Ugric.
		The principal member of the Ugric subgroup is Hungarian, with some 13 million speakers, 10 million of whom reside in Hungary and another 3 million in adjacent countries.
		Ostyak is spoken by about 25,000 in the area of the Ob River of W Siberia, and Vogul is the language of some 5,000 in the neighborhood of the Ob and Irtysh rivers of W Siberia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FinnoUgr.html (323 words)

	Finno-Ugric languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Another dispute surrounds the affinity of the (Click link for more info and facts about Yukaghir languages) Yukaghir languages, which is traditionally regarded as a (Click link for more info and facts about language isolate) language isolate, with some scholars proposing a strong affinity to Uralic (Collinder, 1965).
		But the grouping is still far from transparent — the absence of early records constitutes an obstacle to exact reconstruction not found in, for example, Indo-European or Semitic.
		While much has been speculatively deduced about the Finno-Ugric (Click link for more info and facts about Urheimat) Urheimat, little is certain, and, of course, the relatedness of the languages does not necessarily imply any racial or cultural unity of the peoples speaking them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Finno-Ugric_languages1.htm (2595 words)

	Finno-Ugric language family
		Komi language is included into the Finno-Ugric language family and forms a Permic group of the Finno-Ugric languages with the Udmurt language, which is the closest to Komi.
		Totally 16 languages are included into Finno-Ugric family, which were developed from the united basic language in the deepest antiquity: Hungarian, Mansi, Khanty (The Group of the Ugric languages), Komi, Udmurt (Permic group), Mari, two Mordvin languages - Erzya and Moksha, Balto-Finnic languages - Finnish, Karelian, Izhora, Veps, Vod, Estonian, Liv languages.
		There are a lot of the toponyms of the Ugric origin in the Komi Republic, for example: Vychegda originated from Mansi "vich" - "moist meadow" and "jegda" - "river": the name of the Vym river - from Mansi "jem" - "holy".
	www.geocities.com /Athens/2282/finno.html (5839 words)

	Finno-Ugric Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Languages of the Finnic branch are spoken in the region between northern Norway and the White Sea, the whole of Finland, Estonia and parts of Russia.
		The main language of the Ugric branch is Hungarian (or Magyar) with nearly 11 million speakers in Hungary and a further 3 million speakers in surrounding areas and through emigration.
		Two other Ugric languages are Khanty (or Ostyak), with over 13,000 speakers and Mansi (or Vogul), with around 3,000 speakers.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF97/paivir/finnish/finnugr.html (256 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Foreign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The purpose was to cover up the bad situation of the ethnic minority and to cast suspicions on the motives of the countries that have offered their support.
		The main idea of the theories has been that the aim of the conspirators would be to grab the natural riches of the Ugric regions for a Finno-Ugric great power "that is in the making".
		The communist paper compares the strivings toward autonomy by the Finno-Ugric areas with the bids for independence in trouble-torn republics of the North Caucasus, and concludes that the threat posed by the Ugric areas to Russia's unity is greater than that of the Caucasus.
	www.helsinginsanomat.fi /english/article/Suspicions+of+Finno+Ugric+conspiracy+in+Russia/1101981168282 (826 words)

	The Heathens in Tartu in 1987 - 1994. Heritage Protection Club Tlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This led firstly to the studies of folklore and the kindred nations, to the reassessment of earlier opinions, to attempts to understand and revive the values and knowledge contained in the folk tradition, to synthesise these and adapt these into the contemporary environment and society.
		People sought to synthesise the intuitive Ugric feeling (Leete 1994:92) that was considered to lay scattered in the depths of the archives as well as in the ways of life and thinking of the kinsfolk living in the vast expanses of Russia.
		It was in no way a wish to return to the cave, but unlike the academic research work, they tried to familiarise themselves with the world of the tradition, to sense it, to apply or try out what they had learned.
	www.vinland.org /heathen/pagancee/taara.html (4567 words)

	Ugric RumbleUgric RumbleA tour de force of poetry chanting.
		Ugric RumbleUgric RumbleA tour de force of poetry chanting.
		The plurality of cultures is explored through contemporary art and theatre, lamentations and rock music, traditional costumes and architecture.
		The multifaceted Ugriculture exhibition was opened in May 2000, while the main event will focus on the period 8 to 13 December 2000, with Bear-slaying Theatre Festival, the III Wold Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples at the Finlandia Hall, the Ugric Rumble Ethno Music Festival and the Volga Bend Exhibition at the Museum of Cultures.
	www.nettilinja.fi /~pniikko/ugric.htm (742 words)

	Origin of Finnish and related languages — Virtual Finland
		In particular, the link between Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages spoken on the Siberian side of the Ural Mountains has been (and still is) considered uncertain, but from a purely linguistic viewpoint the relationship is indubitable.
		These groupings are based not so much on kinship and mutual intelligibility as on historical innovations that separate languages from other branches and language groups in the language family.
		Thus, the Ugric group contains Hungarian and also the Ob-Ugrian languages of Khanty and Mansi, both spoken over an extensive area of westernmost Siberia, along the Ob and its tributaries.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/langua.html (1766 words)

	Khanty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jointly with the Mansi and Hungarians, the Khanty language comprises the Ugric groups of the Finno-Ugric languages.
		The subsequent stage of ethnic interactions, which resulted in some of the Ob Ugrians assumed some elements of the Samoyedic culture, continued as late as the first ages of the second millennium.
		Another view claims that the Andronovo culture is to be related to the Iranian ethnos rather than with the Ugric ethnic element, and the Kulai culture is thought to be the most ancient.
	www.raipon.org /Web_Database/khant.html (1648 words)

	Central Eurasian Studies U370 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Illustrations of the different genres (lyrics, narrative, drama) will be given in English translation for each of the peoples.
		Special attention will be given to such internationally known examples of Finno-Ugric folklore as the Finnish Kalevala, traditional Hungarian folk poetry, Ugric heroic songs, Shamanistic practices.
		The material will be presented on the basis of the Stith Thompson Motif-Index and the classificatory works of Finnish folklore scholars.
	www.indiana.edu /~ceus/u345.html (158 words)

	Usein kysyttyä suomalais-ugrilaisista kielistä
		Nowadays, many linguists draw a more bush-like model, with the main branches (Finnic, Sámi, Mordvin, Mari, Permian, Ugric, Samoyed) all equal; their internal relationships cannot be satisfactorily accounted for in terms of the family-tree model.
		The proto-language was spoken at least some six thousand years ago (roughly at the same time as the Indo-European proto-language), which means that the most distant branches of the FU language family are very distantly related.
		Khanty of the Ugric branch, Selkup of the Samoyed branch and also Ket or "Yenisey Ostyak", a "Palaeo-Siberian" language outside the Uralic language family, and this usage still confuses the local authorities and their statistics, even the local people themselves!)
	www.helsinki.fi /~jolaakso/fufaq.html (3520 words)

	Finland: Uralic and Finno-Ugric People
		They have become foreigners in their own ancestral lands in many cases.
		Anti-Uralic attitudes have been destructive of all Finnic, Ugric, Samoyed and many other related tribes as evidenced by statistics.
		Only by conscious effort have they been able to survive where brethren were forcibly scattered and were often not allowed to cooperate in common goals.
	peacecountry0.tripod.com /fincoop.htm (2460 words)

	Finno-Ugric Languages (ilman kehyksiä) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		North of these language groups live the speakers of Mari i.e.
		13,000 speakers), as well as the biggest Finno-Ugric language, Hungarian (14 million speakers) belong to the Ugric languages.
		The speakers of the Samoyed languages live in a wide area in northern Russia.
	www.kotus.fi /kielet/ugri/inenglish.html (240 words)

	Genetics: The Finno-Ugric connection - www.ezboard.com
		It is one of two such subfamilies, the other being the Samoyed languages spoken in N.W. Siberia.
		The Finno-Ugric subfamily is usually further divided into two largish branches: Finnic (sometimes called Finno-Permian) and Ugric.
		Ugric contains the Hungarian language (also called Magyar), spoken in Hungary and by Hungarians living in neighbouring countries.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansfrm54.showMessage?topicID=82.topic (1650 words)

	The Hungarian Language
		For long it has been believed that Hungarian belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family based on a relatively large number of words (~300-400) of Finno-Ugric origin in the language.
		Hungarian, like other Finno-Ugric languages is agglutinative, which means word meanings are modified by adding different and multiple endings or suffixes to the words, rather than using prefixes like, for example, in English.
		Ármin Vámbéry, another well-known Turkologist of the last century suggested that Hungarian is an "ugricized" Turkic language rather than a pure Ugric language.
	studentorgs.utexas.edu /husa/language.html (886 words)

	Divine heroes (from Finno-Ugric religion) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Worship is probably the most basic element of religion, but moral conduct, right belief, and participation in religious institutions are generally also constituent elements of the religious...
		division of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, comprising the Mansi (Vogul) and Khanty (Ostyak) languages; they are most closely related to Hungarian, with which they make up the Ugric branch of Finno-Ugric.
		The Ob-Ugric languages are spoken in the region of the Ob and Irtysh rivers in central Russia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-65430?tocId=65430 (840 words)

	Department of Finno-Ugric
		The theoretical and methodological frameworks established in the last decades are combined with the historical-comparative method in the studies which aim to discover the lexical innovations in the Ob-Ugric protolanguage, the common ancestor of Ostyak and Vogul.
		Also novel are those studies which attempt to describe the rules regulating the buildup of sound sequences in the Ugric and Obi-Ugric protolanguages.
		The Samoyedic research group at the department, consisting primarily of young researchers, specializes on describing Nganasan (Tavgi-Samoyed), one of the most endangered Samoyedic languages.
	www.nytud.hu /depts/fu (597 words)

	Information center of the FINNO-UGRIC peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Part of Hungarians has admixture of eastern race.
		The Hungarian language, which concerns to Ugric group of Finno-Ugric languages, has six big groups of dialects which consist of different pronunciations.
		The appearance of written language based on Latin began in 11 century.
	www.finugor.komiinform.ru /info.e/narod/vengr.html (992 words)

	The Hungarian Language
		For long it has been believed that Hungarian belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic language family based on a relatively large number of words of Finno-Ugric origin in the language.
		Ármin Vámbéry, another well-known Turkologist of the last century suggested that Hungarian is an "ugricized" Turkish language rather than a pure Ugric language.
		Would Hungarian be neither purely Turkish, nor purely Ugric, but rather a unique mixture of both?
	studentorgs.utexas.edu /husa/origins/language.html (851 words)

	Finno Ugric Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There has been attempt to classify it under Indo-European languages, but the about 40 similarities are not enough.
		And countrary, there have been suggestions that Germanic languages (due to archeological findings) is a evolution from Celtic and Finno, but no satisfyed proofs yet exists.
		The Finno-Ugric subfamily of the Uralic languages has the following members:
	www.wikiverse.org /finno-ugric-language (218 words)

	finno ugric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
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	Finno-Ugric languages
		Finno-Ugric languages, also called Finno-Ugrian languages, group of languages forming a subdivision of the Uralic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see
		About 10 million of these people speak the Finnic tongues, which include
		The principal member of the Ugric subgroup is
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0818716.html (210 words)

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		Modern European derivitives of the language in question are
		Hungarian, the Ugric branch's sole representative in Europe, (although it has relatives in central Asia), as well as the Finnic
		Karelian (which is considered by some to be a dialect of Finnish and not a separate language),
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