Finno-Ugrian

Fin·no-U·gric  (fn-grk, -y-) also Fin·no-U·gri·an (-gr-n)

n.

A subfamily of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Hungarian, and other languages of eastern Europe and northwest Russia.

adj.

1. Of or relating to the Finns and the Ugrians.

2. Of or relating to Finno-Ugric.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Finno-Ugrian - a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions) Finno-Ugric Uralic, Uralic language - a family of Ural-Altaic languages 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