Uralic languages

The Uralic languages are a family of related languages spoken in eastern and northern Europe and in northwestern Asia. The best known members belong to the Finno-Ugric subfamily; the other subfamily is called Samoyedic[?]. There is some debate about a possible relationship between the family as a whole and the Altaic languages; a few scholars also consider the Uralic languages to be related to the Indo-European languages, see also Nostratic language.

Some characteristic features of these languages are:

• Extensive use of independent suffixes
• Large set of grammatical cases
• Vowel harmony

External links

• Reliable information and links at:
  • http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/fu.html
  • http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/samoyed.html