Uralic
/jʊˈralɪk
/adjective
1Relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken from northern Scandinavia to western Siberia, comprising the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic groups.In contrast, the Saami, Finns, and Estonians speak languages belonging to the Uralic family, otherwise spoken across a broad region of northern Asia....
- Nenets is part of the Samoyedic group of Uralic languages and has two main dialects: Forest and Tundra.
- Their spoken language, Korean, is a Uralic language with similarities to Japanese, Mongolian, Hungarian, and Finnish.
2Relating to the Ural Mountains or the surrounding areas.But clearly linguistically they are linked to the other Uralic peoples.
noun [mass noun]
The Uralic languages collectively.The evidence for Indo-European, Uralic, Austronesian and so on is overwhelming, and there is no reason not to go deeper....
- A number of researchers in the field of Finnish, Uralic and general linguistics (author of this included) published a letter to Helsingin Sanomat, the main Finnish daily newspaper, protesting this nomination.
