Uralic | |
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Geographic distribution: | Eastern and Northern Europe, North Asia, Siberia |
Linguistic classification: | One of the world's major language families (possibly Uralo-Siberian family) |
Proto-language: | Proto-Uralic |
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ISO 639-5: | urj |
The Uralic languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Eastern Europe and Asia but originated somewhere in eastern Siberia near Lake Baikal.
There are two modern main kinds: the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.