Uralic

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Uralic is one of the major language families of Eurasia.

Classification

Literary standard languages in bold.

  • Balto-Finnic
    • South Estonian
      • Võro
      • Seto
    • Core BF
      • Livonian (†, second-language speakers remain)
      • Estonic
        • (North) Estonian
        • Votic (moribund)
      • Northern Finnic
        • Finnish
        • Eastern Finnic
          • Ingrian
          • East Finnish
          • Karelian
          • Olonetsian
          • Ludic
          • Veps
  • Sami
    • Southwest Sami
      • South Sami
      • Ume Sami (moribund)
    • Northwest Sami
      • Pite Sami (moribund)
      • Lule Sami
      • North Sami
    • Eastern Sami
      • Inari Sami
      • Skolt Sami
      • Kemi Sami (†)
      • Kola Sami
        • Akkala Sami (†)
        • Kildin Sami
        • Ter Sami (moribund)
  • Mordvinic
    • Erzya
    • Moksha
  • Mari
    • Hill (West) Mari
    • Meadow (East) Mari
    • + other dialects
  • Permic
    • Komi
      • Komi proper (Zyrian)
      • Permyak
      • Yodzyak (moribund)
    • Udmurt
  • Hungarian
    • Standard Hungarian
    • Csángó Hungarian
    • Székely Hungarian
  • Khanty
    • North Khanty (Obdorsk, Kazym etc.)
    • East Khanty (Vakh-Vasyugan, Surgut)
    • South Khanty (Demjanka, Konda, etc) (†)
  • Mansi
    • South Mansi (Tavda) (†)
    • Core Mansi
      • North Mansi (Sosva)
      • East Mansi (Pelymka, etc) (†)
      • West Mansi (Konda) (†)
  • Samoyedic
    • Core Northern Samoyedic
      • Nenets
        • Tundra Nenets
        • Forest Nenets
      • Enets (moribund)
      • Yurak (†)
    • Nganasan
    • Selkup
      • North Selkup (Taz)
      • Central Selkup (Tym) (moribund)
      • South Selkup (Ket) (moribund)
    • Kamassian (†)
    • Mator (†)

Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian are not endangered; Meadow Mari, Udmurt, Komi and Northern Sami are the most likely to survive in the future. Ob-Ugric (= Mansi + Khanty) and Samoyedic outside of Nenets are barely transmitted anymore and likely to be extinct within the century.

Development

Hypotheses of external relationships

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