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Finno-Permic languages

 
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Finno-Permic
Finnic
Geographic
distribution:
Northern Fennoscandia, Baltic states, Southwestern, Southeastern, and Ural region of Russia
Genetic
classification
:
Uralic
 Finno-Ugric
  Finno-Permic
Subdivisions:
ISO 639-2 and 639-5: fiu

The Finnic or Finno-Permic languages[1] form one of the main branches of the Finno-Ugric languages that split from it around 2500 - 3000 BC. Finno-Permic is estimated to have branched into Permic languages and Finno-Volgaic languages around 2000 BC. [2]

The term Finnic languages have often been used to designate all the Finno-Permic languages, based on an earlier belief that Permic languages would be much more closer related to the Baltic Finnic languages than to Hungarian. [2]

In the past, the Finno-Permic languages together with the Ugric languages were thought to constitute a closer Finno-Ugric group of languages, separating this entity more sharply from the Samoyedic languages. Today, however, Finno-Permic and Ugric are increasingly seen to be as far apart from each another as from Samoyedic.[citation needed]

Interpretation of grouping the Finnic/Finno-Permic languages can also vary among different scholars. The following proposals for classification are listed by Ruhlen (1987): [3] and by Angela Marcantonio in 2002 [4]

Finnic/Finno-Permic languages by
Collinder, 1965
Finnic/Finno-Permic languages by
Austerlitz 1968
Finnic/Finno-Permic languages by
Sauvageot & Menges 1973
Finnic/Finno-Permic languages by
Harms 1974
Finnic/Finno-Permic languages by
Vogelin & Vogelin 1977

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