Uralicspeaking
Uralicspeaking describes people and communities who speak languages belonging to the Uralic language family, a diverse language stock native to northern Eurasia. The term spans populations across Finland, Estonia, Hungary, northern Russia and adjacent regions, as well as minority communities in other European and Asian countries. Collectively, Uralic languages are spoken by roughly 25 million people, though many individual languages have smaller speaker pools.
The Uralic family is typically divided into several branches. The Finno-Ugric group includes Finnic languages such
Common linguistic traits include agglutinative morphology, extensive case systems, and vowel harmony in many languages. Most
Proto-Uralic is reconstructed as the common ancestor, believed to have been spoken in the region around the
Uralicspeaking communities maintain diverse cultural traditions shaped by their languages, histories of migration, and contact with