Finno-Ugric loans show us exactly what sounds PIIr had at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Reinterpreting the Proto-Indo-European velar series] Reference
The Sami dialects are Finno-Ugric, with borrowings from Norse and even from Latin and Greek. From Wordnik.com. [One People In Four Countries: Part I] Reference
Glen, words borrowed between Indo-Iranian & Finno-Ugric c.2500 BC don't say much on PIE, only on I-I. From Wordnik.com. [The Kurgan Hypothesis is... hypothetical] Reference
I didn't read the whole thing, but I trust that the Finno-Ugric link to Dravidian has not been questioned. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "PARADIGM SHIFTS" IN LINGUISTICS.] Reference
The English equivalents of those exotic Finno-Ugric cases are mostly recreated through humble prepositions. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
And indeed, if Finno-Ugric is just a theoretical construct - why not talk about Euro-languages instead?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "PARADIGM SHIFTS" IN LINGUISTICS.] Reference
Saami languages, being of the Finno-Ugric family, are agglutinative, creating words by linear concatenation of morphemes. From Wordnik.com. [As ice thaws, critical analysis of soundbites dwindles] Reference
About the Hungarian Language Hungarian is a Uralic language more specifically a Ugric language unrelated to most other languages in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Learning FrenchSpanishGermanGreekItalian speak] Reference
Neo-Darwinism predicted that random mutations would pile up until the genes of mice and men were as different as, say, the Finno-Ugric and the English languages. From Wordnik.com. [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference
The Genetic index of languages goes from Maltese (Afro-Asiatic) to Moksha (Finno-Ugric), the Alphabetic index from Abaza to Yiddish; all language pages are pdf files. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ALPHABETS OF EUROPE.] Reference
“Strange syllabic hoofbeats” is all very well, and I am as fond of the adjective “Finno-Ugric” as the next person, but “arrest with my ear” is classic historical-novel-speak. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Finno-Ugric tribe that has been almost entirely assimilated by Slavs. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
Finno-Ugric nations in Russia (www. finnougoria.ru/periodika/20810/). From Wordnik.com. [www.kyivpost.com: News] Reference
Over at BBC News Online the pileup of hard-to-pronounce Finn-Ugric consonants all got a bit much. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Estonians belong to the Balto-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric peoples, as do the Finns and the Hungarians. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Then there are the languages of Finland and Hungary, which are hypothesized to be of a broader Finno-Ugric family. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Hungary has unveiled its culture office in Russia's Volga republic of Udmurtia, which shares the same Finno-Ugric language group. From Wordnik.com. [RIA Novosti] Reference
But, alas, not so. is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
In your descriptions of Hungary ( "Finno-Ugric") and Romania ( "Latin"), you didn't mention that Romania is predominately Orthodox-Christian. From Wordnik.com. [Russia Blog] Reference
"It would be better for Russia," he argues, "if they readopt their lost Finno-Ugric languages and reconnect with their kin peoples in Suomi and Eesti.". From Wordnik.com. [Itching for Eestimaa] Reference
Tatar folk music has rhythmic peculiarities and pentatonic intonation in common with nations of the Volga area, who are ethnically Finno-Ugric and Turkic. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
In fact, Finnish language is a member of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages, which in turn is a member of the Uralic family of languages. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
Finno-Ugric group that once inhabited the Volga region, whose language has long disappeared but whose beliefs and rituals persist in those of Merjan stock amid the ethnic Slavs who now dominate the region. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Because of their rightful common struggle against extinction, the various Finno-Ugric peoples have established cooperation with each other, attempting to forge policies and means to maintain their identity. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Pdf (2003) (English: Etruscan - An Ugric language?). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
The town’s first Slavic inhabitants came from Novgorod, in the boggy forests to the north, late in the first millennium, mixing peaceably with local Finno Ugric tribes. From Wordnik.com. [Escape to Old Russia] Reference
Some say this is a Finno-Ugric trait. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Diel: And Nice to Meet You, too] Reference
` jade'-whether the stone or the animal is not stated, though Scots yad, yade, and yaud mean 'mare' (from Old Norse jalda 'mare,' of Finno-Ugric origin). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
The Friday Circle (Ugric). From Wordnik.com. [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference
A Finno-Ugric language for all you care. From Wordnik.com. [confused of calcutta] Reference
Label (s): Finno-Ugric, Language, Personal, Uralic. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
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