URALIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uralic mean? 

• URALIC (noun)
  The noun URALIC has 1 sense:

1. a family of Ural-Altaic languages

  Familiarity information: URALIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URALIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Ural-Altaic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Uralic; Uralic language

Hypernyms ("Uralic" 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"):

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)