Finno-ugric Languages

The Finno-ugric languages are spoken in Europe and Asia, on a vast geographical surface which go from the the Baltic and about the north of the Scandinavia until the the Ural and with the Don. The full number of speakers of these languages is estimated at 25 million people. However, the number of speakers very strongly varies according to the languages, going from 14 million for the Hungarian to some speakers isolated for the live. A certain number of Finno-ugric languages disappeared during the 20th century and several others are threatened of extinction.

The languages finno-ougriennens do not form part of the family of the Indo-European Langues. They are agglutinant Langues.

The Finno-ugric languages were formerly regarded as one of the two large branches of the family of the Langues ouraliennes, the other connects being that of the Langues samoyèdes. This dichotomy strongly was called in question these last years, the branch samoyède from now on being placed by some on the same level of ramification as the other subfamilies. With the obliteration of this dichotomy, the direction of the “Finno-ugric” term widened and the word is more and more often used to indicate the whole of the family, including the languages samoyèdes. It will be noted besides that, since their creation in the Années 1960, the world congresses gathering every five years the specialists in the languages ouraliennes have as an official name “World congress of the finno-ougrists”.

According to the theory most commonly allowed by the specialists, the Finno-ugric languages (or ouraliennes) result from a common mother language, the Proto-ouralien, which would have been spoken at least six thousand years ago. One of the great tasks of Finno-ugric linguistics was for a long time to reconstitute this protolangue and the various stages of its evolution which gave rise to the current languages. The finno-ougrists also tried to determine, by crossing various approaches (Linguistique, Archéologie, Paléobotanique, Génétique of the populations), the territory where the speakers of this protolangue resided.

This theory of the protolangue was disputed since the end of the Années 1980 by some linguists (Ago Künnap, Kalevi Wiik, János Pusztay), who tried to replace it by the idea that the current Finno-ugric languages would result from old a Lingua franca .

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Bonds

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • ADÉFO - Association for the development of the Finno-ugric studies (Paris)

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