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The term 'Finno-Ugric peoples' is used to describe peoples speaking a Finno-Ugric language.

Contents

Location

Cultural Contacts

Genetics

List of peoples

References

Further reading

See also

External links

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Location

The four largest Finno-Ugric peoples are Hungarians (14,800,000), Finns (about. 6,000,000-7.000.000), Mordvins (1,200,000), and Estonians (1,100,000). Three of them (Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians) have their independent states - Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. The traditional area of the indigenous Sámi people is in Northern Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Penninsula in Northwest Russia and is known as Sápmi. Some other Finno-Ugric peoples have autonomous republics in Russia: Karelians (Republic of Karelia), Komi (Komi Republic), Udmurts (Udmurt Republic), Mari (Mari El Republic), and Mordvins (Republic of Mordovia). Khanty and Mansi peoples live in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia, while Komi-Permyaks live in Komi-Permyak Okrug, which formerly was an autonomous okrug of Russia, but today is a territory with special status within Perm Krai.

Cultural Contacts

Finno-Ugric intercultural festivals, conferences, museums, and artistic, scholarly, and charity collaborations are present and active amongst many populations of speakers of Finno-Ugric or Uralic languages. In addition, artists and scholars from many Finno-Ugric peoples, such as Estonians, Finns, Udmurts, Mordvins (Erzya and Moksha), Maris, and others, are active in the Finno-Ugric peoples related Ethnofuturist art-based cultural and philosophical movement. (See external links section.)

Genetics

Some theories^[1][2][3] posit that contemporary speakers of Finno-Ugric languages originated from a single ancient people. Such theories have not been fully accepted by the scientific community, as it has not been shown that any contemporary group originated from one single ancient people, barring the earliest humans. Like perhaps all populations, individual groups of Finno-Ugric speakers have a diverse array of cultural, environmental, and genetic influences. However, modern genetic studies have shown that the Y-chromosome haplotype N3, and sometimes N2, having branched from haplogroup N, which, itself, probably spread north, then west and east from Northern China or Central Asia about 12 -14,000 years before present from father haplogroup NO (haplogroup O being the most common y-chromosome haplogroup in Southeast Asia) is almost specific, though certainly not restricted, to Uralic or Finno-Ugric speaking populations, especially as high frequency or primary paternal haplogroup.^[4][5]

List of peoples

Finno-Ugric peoples are divided into two groups - Finnic and Ugric.
Finnic group:

★ Besermyan

★ Burtas

★ Chud

★ Finns

★ Estonians

★ Karelians

★ Komi

★ Komi-Permyaks

★ Udmurts

★ Mari

★ Merya people

★ Meshchera people

★ Mordvins, see also Erzya[1] and Moksha[2]

★ Muromian people

★ Narova

★ Sami (Lapps)

★ Setos

★ Izhorians

★ Livonians

★ Veps

★ Votes
Ugric group:

★ Hungarians

★
★ Székely

★
★ Csángó

★
★ Magyarab

★
★ Jász

★ Khanty

★ Mansi

References

1. http://groups.msn.com/AncientWisdomCulturesPeople/magyars.msnw
2. http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/hunspir/hsp05.htm
3. http://books.google.com/books?id=7rmgP02a_mkC&pg=PR7&ots=BX_ZloC9mA&dq=proff+Hungarian&sig=tg85J7fSIQSnBEMkfYH1g_ujmHY
4. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v15/n2/abs/5201748a.html
5. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v74n4/40783/40783.web.pdf?erFrom=-1818203271335085617Guest

Further reading

★ Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.

See also

★ Finno-Ugric languages

External links

★ URALIC PEOPLES

★ MORDVINS (Erzyas and Mokshas)

★ MARIS or Cheremisses

★ VEPSIANS

★ World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples

★ The Information Center of Finno-Ugric Peoples (SURI)

★ The Information Center of Finno-Ugric Peoples (SURI) Newsletter: "Uralic Contacts"

★ Kindred Peoples Programme

★ Etnofotu (Ethnofuturism)

★ The International Congress of Finno-Ugric Writers

★ The Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples (MAFUN)

★ International Expedition for high school, college and university students of the Finno-Ugric World

★ Finno-Ugric Student's Seminar Camp

★ Mari Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples

★ Federal Finno-Ugric Cultural Center (Sykytyvkar, Komi Republic)

★ Article on plans for new Federal Finno-Ugric Cultural Center in Sykytyvkar, Komi Republic

★ International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference (IFUSCO)

★ Video: "Opening Ceremony of the 23rd IFUSCO in Saransk, Mordovian Republic"

★ Vepsian Society: Friends for Friends

★ Vepsian Society | Teacher of Vepsian: Planned All-Fenno-Ugrian Church in Vepsia

★ The International Festival of Theatres of Finno-Ugric Peoples

★ World Championship of Kalevala Chanting & Ugric Rumble Ethno Music Festival

★ Uralkult Festival: "Finno-Ugric culture now!"

★ Ugriculture: Contemporary Finno-Ugric art at the Gallen Kallela Museum

★ On the Banks of the Volga: "Life of a Finno-Ugrian people past and present"

★ Bearslaying Theatre Festival: Theatre by Finno-Ugric Peoples

★ MAFUN | "The Sacred Groves and the Grandmothers" Photo Exhibition

★ University of Indiana Bloomington | Central Eurasian Studies: Uralic Peoples

★ ''Russia Today'' news article, July 20, 2007: "Finno-Ugric nations celebrate in Russia"

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