Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of the Finno-Ugric subfamily of languages that includes Hungarian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Ugrian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a group of languages that includes
Hungarian ,Khanty andMansi . - proper noun A
group oflanguages that includesHungarian ,Khanty andMansi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia
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Examples
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The English equivalents of those exotic Finno-Ugric cases are mostly recreated through humble prepositions.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Neo-Darwinism predicted that random mutations would pile up until the genes of mice and men were as different as, say, the Finno-Ugric and the English languages.
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The English equivalents of those exotic Finno-Ugric cases are mostly recreated through humble prepositions.
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Neo-Darwinism predicted that random mutations would pile up until the genes of mice and men were as different as, say, the Finno-Ugric and the English languages.
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
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The Sami dialects are Finno-Ugric, with borrowings from Norse and even from Latin and Greek.
One People In Four Countries: Part I Matterhorn 2009
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The Sami dialects are Finno-Ugric, with borrowings from Norse and even from Latin and Greek.
Archive 2009-05-01 Matterhorn 2009
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About the Hungarian Language Hungarian is a Uralic language more specifically a Ugric language unrelated to most other languages in Europe.
Planet-x.com.au » Learning FrenchSpanishGermanGreekItalian speak 2009
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The one example of *jn is before *a. *jr appears before *a but not *i but there are some indeterminate cases as well. *lt appears before *a, but the only example before *i is Finno-Ugric.
Laryngeal abuse - Phonemes caught in the reconstructive crossfire 2008
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