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Uralic

A family named after the Ural Mountains, its probable homeland. Its best-known members are Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian; it also includes the Sámi languages of northern Scandinavia and many languages of Russia, such as Mari, Udmurt, Komi, Erzya and Moksha.

11 languages on this site · c. 20 million speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 3 countries.

Highlighted countries: the main official language belongs to this family.

No separate branch 1

  1. Hungarian 12 million

Finnic 3

  1. Finnish 5.8 million
  2. Estonian 854 thousand
  3. Võro 68 thousand

Mordvinic 2

  1. Erzya 437 thousand
  2. Moksha 296 thousand

Permic 3

  1. Udmurt 268 thousand
  2. Komi 114 thousand
  3. Komi-Permyak 44 thousand

Sámi 2

  1. Northern Sami 53 thousand
  2. Skolt Sami 620

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.