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FINNO-UGRIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Synonyms:
Finno-Ugrian; Finno-Ugric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Finno-Ugrian" is a kind of...):
Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Finno-Ugrian"):
Fennic; Finnic; Non-Ugric (one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian))
Ugrian; Ugric (one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia)
