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	Finnish language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
		The spoken language, on the other hand, is the main variety of Finnish to be used in popular TV and radio shows, at workplaces and may be preferred to speaking a dialect in personal communication.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Finnish_language (5696 words)

	ooBdoo
		It is also an official language in Finland and an official minority language in some parts of Sweden, in the form of standard Finnish as well as Meänkieli, and in Norway in the form of Kven.
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically an agglutinative language.
		Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 6% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Finnish_language (5874 words)

	Reference Encyclopedia - Finnish language
		In general, the first loan words into Finno-Ugric languages seem to come from very early Indo-European languages, and later mainly from Indo-Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic languages.
		These words are usually regarded as the last remnant of the Nordic language spoken in Fennoscandia before the arrival of the proto-Finnic language.
		The upper class continued to use Swedish as their primary language even after this because Russia did not have a written law nor legal bureaucracies and left the originally Swedish system mostly intact.
	referenceencyclopedia.com /?title=Finnish_language (5847 words)

	Reference Encyclopedia - Hungarian language
		Hungarian is a member of the Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric language family, which in turn is a branch of the Uralic languages.
		Connections between the Ugric and Finnic languages were noticed in the 1670s and established, along with the entire Uralic family, in 1717, although the classification of Hungarian continued to be a matter of political controversy into the 18th and even 19th centuries.
		Hungarian is the official language of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország), and thus an official language of the European Union (Hungarian: Európai Unió).
	www.referenceencyclopedia.com /?title=Hungarian_language (4100 words)

	Finno-Ugric languages - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A portion of the Baltic-Finnic lexicon is not shared with the remaining Finno-Ugric languages and may be due to a pre-Finnic substrate, which may coincide in part with the substrate of the Indo-European Baltic languages.
		As far as the Sami (Lappic) languages are concerned, a hypothesis has been advanced that the ancestors of the Sami originally spoke a different language, but adopted their current tongue under the pressure of their Finnic-speaking neighbours.
		Thus, the Finno-Ugric languages and their modern speakers do not originate in the area near the Ural mountains, but rather likely were one of the three indigenous European ethnic groups, which together provided about 80% of modern European genetic material.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Finno-Ugric_languages (2422 words)

	Khanty language
		The Khanty language is known to have a large number of dialects.
		The Khanty written language was first created after the October Revolution on the basis of the Latin script in 1930, and then with the Cyrillic alphabet (with the additional letter <ң> for /ŋ/) from 1937.
		In an ergative construction, the object is given the same case as the subject of an intransitive verb, and the locative is used for the agent of the transitive verb (as an instrumental).
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Khanty_language (581 words)

	Sami languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Parts of the Sami language area form a dialect continuum in which the neighbouring languages may be to fair degree mutually intelligible, but two more widely separated groups will not understand each others' speech.
		Sami is an official language of the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger and Tana.
		The Sami language act of 2003 made Sami an official language in Enontekiö, Inari, Sodankylä and Utsjoki municipalities.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sami_languages (915 words)

	· II MMV ·
		The corridors are similar in the sense that the territories of the Indo-European languages have expanded at the expense of other languages, mainly because the speakers of the original languages of northern areas have, in the process of language change, acquired an Indo- European language.
		In connection with the language change, the present Russian language was born, with a large substratum originating in the Finno-Ugric languages.
		Language change from Insular Celtic to English is in fact underway, because Celtic is still spoken in the most western and northern parts of the British Isles.
	www.einst.ee /culture/II_MMV/wiik.html (708 words)

	Sami_languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe.
		The Sami languages are spoken in Lapland in Northern Europe, in a region stretching over the four countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, reaching from the southern part of central Scandinavia in the southwest to the tip of the Kola Peninsula in the east.
		The remaining living languages Ter Sami, Pite Sami and Ume Sami are moribund and have very few (likely under 20) speakers left.[citation needed] The last speaker of Akkala Sami is known to have died in 2003, and the eleventh attested variety Kemi Sami became extinct in the 19th century.
	easy-credit-card.rubylq2.com /Sami_languages (1421 words)

	Uralic_languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The name of the language family refers to the location of the familyâs suggested Urheimat (homeland), which is often placed close to the Ural mountains.
		The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian.
		Theories proposing a special relationship with the Altaic languages have formerly been popular, based on shared vocabulary as well as grammatical and phonological features (e.g., agglutination, vowel harmony), but are now generally rejected by most linguists, who view such similarities as resulting from language contact.
	anti-aging.rubylq2.com /Uralic_languages (1619 words)

	Meshchera
		There are some indications that this western Meshcherian dynasty had been converted to Orthodoxy and was a vassal of the Moscow princes.
		The archaeological studies of the Meshcherian heritage started in 1870, when a ground burial site was discovered by chance in the village of Zhabki, Ryazan province (now Egorievsk district, Moscow region).
		The Meshchera noblemen were converted by the 12th-13th centuries, but the common hunters and fishers kept the elements of their language and traditional beliefs for a longer period.
	www.hunmagyar.org /turan/mordvin/meshchera.html (1216 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Finno-Ugric languages
		Central and northern Russia west of the Ural mountains is generally assumed to be the most likely spot, perhaps around the 3rd millennium BC.
		Notably, Kalevi Wiik has argued that Proto-Finno-Ugric was the original language in most of Northern and Central Europe, and that the earliest Finno-Ugric speakers and their languages originated in the territory of modern Ukraine (the so-called "Ukrainian refuge") during the last glacial period, when the whole of northern Europe was covered with ice.
		Another feature of the Finno-Ugric languages is that verbs are inflected, that is, conjugated, by person and number.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages (2265 words)

	Veps language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Veps language (also known as Vepsian), spoken by the Vepsians (also known as Veps), belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages.
		According to the location of the people, the language is divided into three main dialects: Northern Veps (at Lake Onega to the south of Petrozavodsk, to the north of river Syväri, including the Veps Autonomous Rural district), Central Veps (in the Saint Petersburg region), and Southern Veps (in the Vologda Oblast).
		Their language is sometimes classified as an offshoot of Karelian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veps_language (207 words)

	Hungarian language - ikiW
		As one of the small number of modern European languages which do not belong to the Indo-European language family, it has always been of great interest to linguists.
		It is spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in seven neighbouring countries.
		Hungarian-speaking people are also to be found in Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia, Austria, and Slovenia, as well as about a million people scattered in other parts of the world (see Geographic distribution).
	hungarian-language.ikiw.net /en/Hungarian_language (190 words)

	Meshchera - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This i in stark contrast to the related tribes Merya and Murom, which appear to have been assimilated by the East Slavs by the 10th and the 11th centuries.
		Kurbsky wrote that the Mordvin language was spoken in the lands of the Meshchera.
		The Meshchera bobility appears to have been converted and assimilated by the 13th century, but the common Meshchera huntsman and fisherman may have kept elements of their language and beliefs for a longer period.
	www.wikileasing.com /24/Meshchera.html (610 words)

	The Lost World of Meshchera
		But the chronicles say the Meshchera had own language [11], which is now, alas, extinct.
		In the beginning of the 20th century a few other Meshcherian ground burials were found near Sydogda, Vladimir region, Russia.
		The Meshcherian burials of c 11-12 AD demonstrate this thought the cultural contacts occurred long before, especially between Baltic, Slavic and Finnish (including Meshchera) tribes along Oka water way.
	www.egorievsk.ru /eng/history/lwmecshera.html (2156 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Uralic languages
		the stress is always on the first syllable, except for the Mari, Udmurt and Komi-Permyak languages.
		Abondolo, Daniel (ed., 1998), The Uralic Languages, London and New York, ISBN 0-415-08198-X. Collinder, Björn (1957), Survey of the Uralic Languages, Stockholm.
		The Untenability of the Finno-Ugrian Theory from a Linguistic Point of View by Dr. László Marácz, a minority opinion on the language family.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Uralic_languages (1190 words)

	Hungarian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Compounds are present since the Proto-Uralic era in the language.
		For a complete table of the pronunciation of the Hungarian alphabet, see the X-SAMPA description in the Hungarian The Encyclopedia (in Hungarian, but the table is obvious), which transliterates Hungarian letters into IPA and X-SAMPA characters.
		Hungarian language edition of The Encyclopedia, the free encyclopedia
	www.cheguevara.co.za /wiki/Hungarian_language (4115 words)

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