Ugric languages

Ugric
Ugrian
Geographic
distribution
Hungary and Western Siberia
Linguistic classificationUralic
  • Ugric
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
The Ugric languages

The Ugric or Ugrian languages (/ˈjuːɡrɪk, ˈ-/[1] or /ˈjuːɡriən, ˈ-/[2]) are a branch of the Uralic language family.

Ugric includes three subgroups: Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi. The latter two are traditionally considered to be single languages, though they are sometimes considered to be small subdivisions of the Ugric language family due to considerable dialectical differences. A common Proto-Ugric language is posited to have been spoken from the end of the 3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in Western Siberia, east of the southern Ural Mountains. Of the three languages, Khanty and Mansi have sometimes been set apart from Hungarian as Ob-Ugric, though features uniting Mansi and Hungarian in particular are known as well.

The name Ugric is derived from ugry (угры), a Russian exonym of the Magyars (Hungarians) and the northern Russian region of Yugra.[3] A connection between these words was first suggested in the beginning of 16th century. However, according to István Vásáry the etymological connection between these two words has not been verified, and the name Ugric is based on a folk etymology.[4]

  1. ^ "Ugric". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
  2. ^ "Ugrian". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
  3. ^ Stevenson, Angus (19 August 2010). Oxford Dictionary of English. OUP Oxford. p. 1925. ISBN 978-0-19-957112-3.
  4. ^ Vásáry, István (1982). "The 'Yugria' Problem". In Róna-Tas, András (ed.). Chuvash studies. Bibliotheca orientalis hungarica. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadó. ISBN 978-963-05-2851-1.

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