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What does Uralic mean?

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  1. Pertaining to the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples, whose Urheimat was the Ural Mountains, or to their languages, which constitute a language family, the Uralic languages.
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But clearly linguistically they are linked to the other Uralic peoples.
The Sami languages belong to the Uralic language family, linguistically related to Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.
Their spoken language, Korean, is a Uralic language with similarities to Japanese, Mongolian, Hungarian, and Finnish.
The evidence for Indo-European, Uralic, Austronesian and so on is overwhelming, and there is no reason not to go deeper.
In contrast, the Saami, Finns, and Estonians speak languages belonging to the Uralic family, otherwise spoken across a broad region of northern Asia.
Blazek's Uralic etymologies, but it seems to have influenced more seriously the Altaic than the Uralic part of the book.

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