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URALIC LANGUAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Uralic language mean?
• URALIC LANGUAGE (noun)
The noun URALIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:
1. a family of Ural-Altaic languages
Familiarity information: URALIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Ural-Altaic languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Uralic; Uralic language
Hypernyms ("Uralic language" is a kind of...):
Ural-Altaic (a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Uralic language"):
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)
Samoyed; Samoyedic (the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia)
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