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Ugric languages or Ugrian languages are generally held to be a branch of Finno-Ugric languages. The term derives from Yugra. Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. ...
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a territory formerly known as Yugra Yugra (Russian: ) was the name of the lands between the Pechora River and Northern Urals in the Russian annals of the 12th–17th centuries, as well as the name of the Khanty and partly Mansi tribes inhabiting these territories. ...
They include three languages: Hungarian (Magyar), and the Ob-Ugric languages, 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. The Ob-Ugric languages are a subset of the Finno-Ugric languages, specifically referring to the Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul) languages. ...
Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. ...
Mansi language, also known as Vogul language (МанÑийÑкий Ñзык, ВогульÑкий Ñзык in Russian), is a language of the Mansi people. ...
The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age. ...
The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of successive empires. ...
It has been suggested that Western Siberia be merged into this article or section. ...
Map of the Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains (Russian: , Uralskiye gory) (also known as the Urals, the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, and known as the Stone Belt) are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ...
Structural features
- Distinct verb conjugations according to the transitivity of the verb. It is sometimes termed as “definite” versus “indefinite” conjugation, because also the definiteness of the object can play a role when selecting between the two
- Verbal Prefixes - modify the meaning of the verb in both concrete and abstract ways
Examples from Mansi It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Transitive verb. ...
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). ...
An object in grammar is a sentence element and part of the sentence predicate. ...
ēl(a) - 'forwards, onwards, away'
| jōm- 'to go, to stride' | ēl-jōm- 'to go away/on' | | tinal- 'to sell' | ēl-tinal- 'to sell off' | χot - 'direction away from something and other nuances of action intensity' | min- 'to go' | χot-min- 'to go away, to stop' | | roχt- 'to be frightened' | χot-roχt- 'to take fright suddenly' | Examples from Hungarian
el - 'away, off'
| ugrik 'to jump' | elugrik 'to jump away' | | mosolyog 'to smile' | elmosolyodik 'to start to smile' | ki - 'out (of)' | ugrik 'to jump' | kiugrik 'to jump out' | | olvas 'to read' | kiolvas 'to read out' | (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 Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. ...
Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages Yukaghir Samoyedic Ugric Finnic The Uralic languages (pronounced: ) 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 3-89586-231-2
- Törkenczy, Miklós: Hungarian Verbs & Essentials of Grammar. Passport Books, 1997. ISBN 0-8442-8350-9
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