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Finnic languages

Also known as: Volga-Finnic languages

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  • relation to Baltic languages
    • In Baltic languages: Loanwords in Baltic

      …both the Baltic and the Finnic languages. Baltic has very few early loanwords from Finnic, but Finnic has many early loans from Baltic. Latvian, with many loanwords from Livonian and Estonian (both Finnic languages), has been more influenced by Finnic than has any other recorded Baltic language.

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    • Finno-Ugric languages
      • In Finno-Ugric languages

        …classified together as the Volga-Finnic group of languages. Also, because the dialects of Sami are almost mutually unintelligible, they are often classified as separate languages.

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    • Uralic languages
      • distribution of the Uralic languages
        In Uralic languages: Languages of the family

        …most distantly related Ugric and Finnic (sometimes called Volga-Finnic) groups, which may have separated as long ago as five millennia. Within these, three relatively closely related groups of languages are found: the Baltic-Finnic, the Permic, and the Ob-Ugric. The largest of these, the Baltic-Finnic group, is composed of Finnish,

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    Permic languages

    Also known as: Permian languages
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    Permian

    Permic languages, division of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, consisting of the Udmurt (Votyak), Komi (Zyryan), and Permyak (Komi-Permyak) languages. The Permic languages are spoken along the northern and western reaches of the Ural Mountains in Russia in and around Udmurtia and Komi. Udmurt has little dialectal variation, but Komi has many distinctive dialects divided into two major groups: Northern (Zyryan) Komi and Eastern (Yazva) Komi. The Komi literary language is based on Zyryan. Permyak has literary status in the Komi-Permyak autonomous okrug (district).

    Both Udmurt and Komi languages have flourishing literatures that have developed primarily since the second half of the 19th century, although written records of Komi exist from the 14th century. See also Finno-Ugric languages.

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