FINNO-UGRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Finno-Ugrian mean? 

• FINNO-UGRIAN (noun)
  The noun FINNO-UGRIAN has 1 sense:

1. a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)

  Familiarity information: FINNO-UGRIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINNO-UGRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Finno-Ugrian; Finno-Ugric

Hypernyms ("Finno-Ugrian" is a kind of...):

Uralic; Uralic language (a family of Ural-Altaic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Finno-Ugrian"):

Fennic; Finnic; Non-Ugric (one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian))

Ugrian; Ugric (one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia)