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Uralic

vr.tr.uralic · INF.MED

Let an agent explain the Uralic language family and its branches, describe classification debates with attribution, present the status of member languages, and support learning and comparison.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the Uralic language family and its branches, describe classification debates with attribution, present the status of member languages, and support learning and comparison.

A family of languages spoken across northern Eurasia from Scandinavia and Hungary to western Siberia, comprising the Finnic, Saami, Mordvinic, Mari, Permic, Ugric and Samoyedic branches, with Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian as the largest languages and many small and endangered languages such as Nenets, Khanty and the Saami languages; the family is traditionally divided into Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, though internal classification is debated, and the relation to Yukaghir is a hypothesis.

What it is for: A language family of northern Eurasia.

It can be explain branches; present classification debates; describe language status; support learning and comparison.

Distinguishing features

Shared ancestry

Agglutinative morphology

Vowel harmony in many members

Wide geographic spread

What it looks like

Not physical; a group of related languages.

How it is recognised

Related languages of northern Eurasia

Finnic, Saami, Ugric, Samoyedic and others

Turkic and Indo-European are separate families

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In practice

Families and kinds

Finnic languages

Saami languages

Mordvinic, Mari and Permic languages

Ugric languages including Hungarian

Samoyedic languages

Standards and regulation

Language classification conventions

Minority language protection in Russia, Nordic countries and elsewhere

Orthography standards for member languages

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting disputed subgroupings as settled

Outdated speaker numbers

Politicised claims about origins

Also called

UgricSamoyedicYukaghirYuratsSoyotFinno-UgricOld HungarianOb-UgricSouthern SamoyedicEnets-NenetsMotor-Taigi-KaragasSelkupKamasNganasanChuvanOmokTundra YukaghirSouthern YukaghirProto-FinnicFinno-PermicFinnish languagesProto-SámiNorthern SelkupSouthern SelkupCentral SelkupKoibalProto-Finno-PermicFinno-VolgaicNarym Southern SelkupProto-Finno-VolgaicFinno-SamicVolga-Finnic

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand The family.

Linguistics.

Branches

Branches and members.

Branches

Branches.

  1. What are the branches of Uralic and their main languages, and how are they distributed geographically? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific language? action

Classification

Classification debates.

Classification

Classification.

  1. How is the internal classification of Uralic debated, including the status of Finno-Ugric and proposed links such as Yukaghir? provenance
  2. Are contested claims attributed? boundary
Features Linguistic features.

Structure.

Grammar

Shared features.

Grammar

Grammar.

  1. Which features such as agglutination, case systems, vowel harmony and possessive suffixes characterise Uralic languages? definition
  2. How do members differ? definition

History

Historical development.

History

History.

  1. What is known about Proto-Uralic and the homeland and spread of the family, according to linguists and archaeologists? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary
Status Languages today.

Context.

Endangered

Endangered languages.

Endangered

Endangerment.

  1. Which Uralic languages are endangered, and what revitalisation and protection efforts exist, as described by communities and agencies? provenance
  2. Which entry fits language revitalisation? action

National

National languages.

National

National.

  1. How are Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian standardised and regulated? provenance
  2. Which entry fits each language? action
Learn Learning and teaching.

Education.

Learning

Learning a Uralic language.

Learning

Learning.

  1. How can someone learn a Uralic language, and which resources exist? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching the family.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can the Uralic family be taught in linguistics? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each branch be a separate entry?
  • How should classification sources be linked?
  • How should endangerment data be linked?