Ugric languages or Ugrian languages are generally held to be a branch of Finno-Ugric languages. Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. ...

They include three languages: Hungarian, and the Ob-Ugric Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi language (Vogul). Their common Proto-Ugric language was probably spoken from the end of the 3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in Western Siberia, east from the southern Ural mountains. Khanty language, also known as the Ostyak language (Хантыйский язык, Остяцкий язык in Russian), is a language of the Khant peoples. ... Mansi language, also known as Vogul language (Мансийский язык, Вогульский язык in Russian), is a language of the Mansi people. ... (4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – other millennia) // Events Syria: Foundation of the city of Mari (29th century BC ) Iraq: Creation of the Kingdom of Elam Germination of the Bristlecone pine tree Methuselah about 2700 BC, the oldest known tree still living now Dynasty of Lagash in... (2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – other millennia) // Events The turn of the 1st millenium BC introduced a deep change in civilization throughout the ancient world. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... Map of Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains (Russian: Уральские горы = Урал) also known simply as the Urals and as the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, is a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ...

Structural features

• Definite and indefinite verb conjugations
• Verbal Prefixes - modify the meaning of the verb in both concrete and abstract ways

Examples from Mansi In grammatical theory, Definiteness is a feature of noun phrases, distinguishing between entities which are specific and identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and entities which are not (indefinite noun phrases). ...

ēl(a) - 'forwards, onwards, away'

χot - 'direction away from something and other nuances of action intensity'

Examples from Hungarian

el - 'away, off'

ki - 'out (of)'

(In Hungarian, the citation form of verbs is the 3rd person singular form, which is given here, which doesn't have any suffixes.) In linguistics, citation form is the way a word is prononunced when it is spoken carefully and in isolation, such as when reading a list of words. ...

See also

• Finno-Ugric languages
• Uralic languages

Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ...

References

• Riese, Timothy: Vogul. Languages of the World/Materials 158, Lincom Europa, 2001. ISBN 3895862312
• Törkenczy, Miklós: Hungarian Verbs & Essentials of Grammar. Passport Books, 1997. ISBN 0844283509