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Uralic

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U·ral·ic  (y-rlk) also U·ra·li·an (y-rl-n)
n.
A language family that comprises the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic subfamilies.
[After the Ural (Mountains).]
U·ralic adj.
Uralic [jʊˈrælɪk], Uralian [jʊˈreɪlɪən]
n
(Linguistics / Languages) a superfamily of languages consisting of the Finno-Ugric family together with Samoyed See also Ural-Altaic
adj
(Linguistics / Languages) of or relating to these languages
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Noun1.Uralic - a family of Ural-Altaic languagesUralic - a family of Ural-Altaic languages    
Uralic language
Ural-Altaic - a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
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)
Lappic, Lappish - any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages
Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
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The Samoyedic languages form a branch of the Uralic language family, the other branch being the Finno-Ugric languages.
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Eurasiatic, in turn, includes Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic, Yukaghir, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Gilyak, and Eskimo-Aleut.
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There may be three conjugations in Uralic languages: indefinite, definite and reflexive (or indeterminative, determinative and reflexive-medial; for a long time the same conjugations have been known in Uralistics as subjective, objective and reflexive ones).
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