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Uralic language
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Noun1.Uralic language - a family of Ural-Altaic languagesUralic language - a family of Ural-Altaic languages    
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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Bo Wickman who has thoroughly treated an object form in all Uralic languages has not found a connection between an object case form and definitiveness/indefinitiveness in Samoyedic languages (Wickman 1955 74-144).
It could result from differing adaptations to cold climates as well as the separation of northern groups, which spoke Uralic languages, from Indo-European speakers.
In case of Uralic languages Nadeczda Kuznecova has observed the connection in Selkup.
 
 
 
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