Everything about Finnic Languages totally explained
Finnic languages is a language group including
Baltic-Finnic languages and
Volga-Finnic languages. The term
Finnic is also used to describe the speakers of formerly called Finno-Lappic languages, nowadays denoted as the
Sami languages and the
Finno-Permic languages of
Komi (Komi Zyryan),
Komi Permyak, and
Udmurt (Votyak). The Finnic division of the groups: Baltic-Finnic, Volga-Finnic, Permic and Sami together with the
Ugric division of
Hungarian and the
Ob-Ugric languages
Mansi (Vogul) and
Khanty (Ostyak) make the
Finno-Ugric group of the
Uralic language family.
The major modern representatives of Baltic Finnic languages are
Finnish and
Estonian.
The Volga Finnic languages are
Mari or Cheremis spoken in
Mari El Republic, the
Moksha and the
Erzya spoken in the
Republic of Mordovia of the
Russian Federation
Interpretation of grouping the Finnic languages can vary among different scholars.
The following proposals for classification are listed by Ruhlen (1987): and by Angela Marcantonio in 2002
Finnic languages by
Collinder, 1965 |
Finnic languages by
Austerlitz 1968 |
Finnic languages by
Sauvageot & Menges 1973 |
Finnic languages by
Harms 1974 |
Finnic languages by
Vogelin & Vogelin 1977 |
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1.Permic
2.Volgaic
3.North Finnic
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1. Baltic Finnic
2. Saamic
3. Volgaic
4. Permic
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1. Permic
2. Mari (Cheremis)
3. West Finnic
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1. Permic
2. Finno Volgaic
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