Uralic Language (Noun)
Meaning
A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Uralic language family consists of languages such as Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian, which are spoken in Northern Europe and parts of Russia.
- Uralic languages are agglutinative, meaning that words are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots.
- Some linguists consider the Uralic language family to be part of a larger Ural-Altaic language family, which also includes languages such as Turkish and Mongolian.
- The Uralic language family is not as widely spoken as some other language families, but it still has around 20 million speakers worldwide.
- Although the Uralic language family is distinct from the Indo-European language family, there are some loanwords and similarities between the two.