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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 riverplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VOLGAIC (noun)


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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