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n. - One of two branches of the family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)

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  • Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes.
  • I once met a HS teacher whose married name was ~15 letters long and not from any language I could recognize Indo-E, Finnic, Turkic, Semitic, E-Asian.
  • Scholars have therefore seen gradation in Balto-Finnic and Lapp as the result of parallel, but separate development to the gradation in Samoyed. see link.
  • Still he regards the Magyar and Finnic languages as having greater mutual affinities than the others, though not to such a degree that one of these races of men can be...
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