The
Uralic languages are a
family of related
languages spoken in eastern and northern
Europe and in northwestern
Asia. The best known members belong to the
Finno-Ugric subfamily; the other subfamily is called
Samoyedic[?]. There is some debate about a possible relationship between the family as a whole and the
Altaic languages; a few scholars also consider the Uralic languages to be related to the
Indo-European languages, see also
Nostratic language.
Some characteristic features of these languages are:
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