Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

Although Estonian may seem like a minor language, it ranks among the top 5 percent of the most spoken languages in the world. According to a linguist, this is remarkable — just like the fact that it ...

How do you save a language from extinction? With creative thinking—and some help from Wikipedia In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak ...

Fluent in his native Japanese and English, Naoki's fascination with the Uralic language family eventually sparked a similar passion for the Baltic languages. Brace yourself: he speaks Estonian, ...

Romania surprises with its Romance language roots. The central-eastern European country is surrounded by Slavic languages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova, plus Hungary’s Uralic language.

Sami languages are any of three languages (sometimes considered dialects of one overarching language) belonging to the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family — North Sami, East Sami and ...

Did you know that most of the different languages we speak today can actually be placed in only a couple of groups by their ...

This is a brief overview of Swedish and other languages in Sweden. Swedish is taught at around 200 universities outside the Nordic countries.

The Ugric languages Mansi, Khanty and Hungarian form a branch of the Uralic language family which is mainly spread across North-Eastern Europe and Siberia. Other prominent languages of the Uralic ...

The field covers research on languages that are only remotely related to those within the Finnic language area. The appointee must hold academic qualifications in research on at least two branches of ...