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| | Finno-Ugrian - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The name is not, however, extended to the Ostiaks, Voguls and Magyars, who, though allied, form a separate subdivision called Ugrian, a name derived from Yura or Ugra, the country on either side of the Ural Mountains, and first used by Castren in a scientific sense. |
 | | Among the older writers may be mentioned Strahlenberg (Das nordand ostliche Theil von Europa and Asia, 1730), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de la Russie, French tr., St Petersburg, 1777), but especially the various works of Matthias A. Castren (1852-1853) and W. Schott (1858). |
 | | For general linguistic questions may be consulted the works of Castren, Schott and Otto Donner, also such parts of the following as treat of Finno-Ugric languages: Byrne, Principles of the Structure of Language, vol. |
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