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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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classification of

    • 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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    • Mordvin language
    • 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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