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Finnic languages

The Finnic languages, also known as Baltic Finnic languages, constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around seven million speakers, who live mainly in Finland and Estonia.

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Ethnicity
Baltic Finnic peoples
Geographic distribution
Fennoscandia, Estonia, Latvia, Northwestern Russia
Glottolog
finn1317
Linguistic classification
Finnic
Proto-language
Proto-Finnic
Subdivisions
North Finnic · North Estonian · Votic · South Estonian · Livonian

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Finnic languages

Nodes83
Edges82
Triples151
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024096
Components1

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Finnic languages

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related to References · 45
Finnic languages → Amsterdam, Arvo, Buske, Castrenianumin, Daniel, Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia, Einführung, Estonian, Facing Finnic, Fennic, German, Hamburg, Helsingin, Helsinki, In Abondolo, In Dahl, Johanna, John Benjamins, Keele, Kettunen
related to history · 19
Finnic languages → AD, As, Baltic Sea, BC, Finland, Finnic, Finnic-speaking, Gulf, However, Mikko Heikkilä, Paleo-Baltic, Paleo-European, Pekka Sammallahti's, Prior, Proto-Finnic, South Estonian, The, There, These
related to Sound changes · 18
Finnic languages → Assibilation, Before, Consonant, Depending, Development, Elimination, Estonian, Finnic, Finnish, Later, Proto-Uralic, See, Semivowels, Sound, South Estonian, The, This, Uralic
related to Southern Finnic · 17
Finnic languages → Central Finnic, Coastal Estonian, Estonian, Estonian-Votic, Finnic, Ingrian-influenced Kukkuzi Votic, Kallio, Livonian, Maa, North, Northern Finnic, South Estonian, The, The Southern Finnic, These, Viitso, Votic
related to External links · 14
Finnic languages → Early Indo-European, Finnic, Finnish, Helsinki, January, Lexicon, Problems, Salminen, Schalin, Swadesh, Swadesh-list, Tapani, Uralic, Wiktionary's
related to Classification · 9
Finnic languages → Baltic, Finnic, Germanic, Innovations, Moksha, Mordvinic, Sámi, The Finnic, Uralic
Subdivisions · 6
Finnic languages → Bjarmian †, Livonian, North Estonian, North Finnic, South Estonian, Votic
related to Subgrouping · 5
Finnic languages → Finnic, Innovations, Northern Finnic, Southern Finnic, The Finnic
related to General characteristics · 4
Finnic languages → Finnic, Morphological, The, There
related to List of Finnic innovations · 3
Finnic languages → Finnic, These, Uralic

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languages finnic estonian finnish livonian also dialects language uralic finland northern case votic south karelian spoken veps baltic southern north

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Finnic languagesEthnicityBaltic Finnic peoples1.00infobox
Finnic languagesGeographic distributionFennoscandia, Estonia, Latvia, Northwestern Russia1.00infobox
Finnic languagesGlottologfinn13171.00infobox
Finnic languagesLinguistic classificationFinnic1.00infobox
Finnic languagesProto-languageProto-Finnic1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsNorth Finnic1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsNorth Estonian1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsVotic1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsSouth Estonian1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsLivonian1.00infobox
Finnic languagesSubdivisionsBjarmian †1.00infobox
Finnish pappi 'priest'instance ofThere is now wide agreement that Proto-Finnic was probably spoken at the coasts of the Gulf of Finland.Some Slavic loanwords0.80text

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