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VOLGAIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Volgaic mean?
• VOLGAIC (noun)
The noun VOLGAIC has 1 sense:
1. a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river
Familiarity information: VOLGAIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Volgaic" is a kind of...):
Fennic; Finnic; Non-Ugric (one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Volgaic"):
Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari (the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis)
Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian (the Finnic language spoken by the Mordvinians)
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