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Finnic

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Fin·nic  (fnk)
adj.
Of or relating to Finland or the Finns.
n.
A branch of Finno-Ugric that includes Finnish, Estonian, and Lapp.
Finnic [ˈfɪnɪk]
n
(Linguistics / Languages) one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages, including Finnish and several languages of NE Europe Compare Ugric
adj
(Linguistics / Languages) (Social Science / Peoples) of or relating to this group of languages or to the Finns
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Noun1.Finnic - one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)
Fennic, Non-Ugric
Finno-Ugrian, Finno-Ugric - a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
Permic - a group of Finnic languages spoken in the northwest Urals
Volgaic - a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river
Baltic-Finnic - a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian
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of Groningen, 2005), Blockland fills this gap with historical context on a language that is part of the southern branch of the Finnic and its loanwords from Estonian-Russian contacts.
The Russian loanwords in literary Estonian by Reference & Research Book News
1990, The East Finnic Minorities in the Soviet Union.
Language maintenance and Finno-Ugric world/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ... by Rannut, Mart / Linguistica Uralica
The present paper seeks to contribute to the literature on prosody in Finnic languages by presenting results of a quantitative study of stress and duration in Ingrian.
Prominence and gemination in Ingrian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Gordon, Matthew / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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