Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to that group of peoples which speak either Finnic or Ugrian languages.
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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Finno-Ugric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions)
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Examples
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The Magyar traditional five tone pentatonic scale echoes their Oriental and Finno-Ugrian nomadic beginnings, indeed the Magyar language is linguistically very close to Japanese.
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The Magyar traditional five tone pentatonic scale echoes their Oriental and Finno-Ugrian nomadic beginnings, indeed the Magyar language is linguistically very close to Japanese.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The Hungarians were themselves nomads of the Finno-Ugrian family.
e. Hungary 2001
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Turkish origin of the Magyars, while Pál Hunfalvy and his followers place them in the Finno-Ugrian division of languages of a Ural-Altaic stem and look for the original home of the race in the region of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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+ Hybrid races: (1) Finno-Ugrian hybrid race; (2) Berber hybrid race.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The negro on the Gold Coast prays for his daily rice and yams, the Zulu for cattle and for corn, the Samoan for abundant food, the Finno-Ugrian for rain to make his crops grow; the Peruvian prayed for health and prosperity.
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That host was Turkish, but closely allied in origin, language, and habits with the Finno-Ugrian settlers on the Ural.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"While languages like German, Italian, French belong to what is known as 'modern European languages' find favour with most students, those who come to study Slavic and Finno-Ugrian language courses, study them to broaden their horizons and for the different perspective these courses offer about the western world," says RK Nagpal, the head of the department who teaches
The Times of India 2010
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The Hungarian language belongs to the Ugrian group of the Finno-Ugrian language family.
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One had to wait some twenty years until the outbreak of the so-called "Ugrian-Turkic war", the passionate scholarly debate in which Vámbéry was opposed by his former friend Budenz, and which made the theory of the exclusive Finno-Ugrian origin official for a century.
languagehat.com 2009
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