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The 'Finno-Volgaic languages', also known as 'Volga-Finnic languages' or the Finno-Mari, Finno-Cheremisic languages, are a language group of Mari (formerly Cheremis) and Mordvin, sometimes considered also as individual languages. The Finnic division of the groups: Baltic-Finnic, 'Volga-Finnic', Permic and Sami together with the Ugric division of Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages Mansi (Vogul) and Khanty (Ostyak) make the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family.^[1]

Contents

Modern interpretations of the Uralic paradigm

Classification

References

Modern interpretations of the Uralic paradigm

^[2]
By Collinder, 1965
'Finnic:'

★ 1.Mordvin

★ 2.Mari (''Cheremis'')

★ 3.Baltic Finnic

★ 4.Saamic

★ 5.Permic
By Austerlitz 1968
'Finnic:'

★ 1.Permic

★ 2.Volgaic

★ 3.North Finnic

★
★ Saamic

★
★ Baltic Finnic
By Sauvageot & Menges 1973
'Finnic:'

★ 1. Baltic Finnic

★ 2. Saamic

★ 3. Volgaic

★ 4. Permic
by Harms 1974
'Finnic:'

★ 1. Permic

★ 2. Mari (''Cheremis'')

★ 3. West Finnic

★
★ Mordvin

★
★ North Finnic

★
★
★ Saamic

★
★
★ Baltic Finnic
Vogelin & Vogelin 1977
'Finnic:'

★ 1. Permic

★ 2. Finno Volgaic

★
★ Volgaic

★
★ Finno-Lappic

★
★
★ Saamic

★
★
★ Baltic Finnic

Classification

'Mari' (Cheremisic)

★ Mari (''Cheremis'')
'Mordvinic' (Mordvin, Mordvinian)

★ Erzya

★ Moksha
'Extinct Finno-Volgaic languages of uncertain position'

★ Merya — Extinct

★ Meshcherian — Extinct

★ Muromian — Extinct
'Finno-Lappic' (Finno-Saamic, Finno-Samic)

★ Sami (Samic, Saamic, ''Lappic'', ''Lappish'')

★
★ Western Sami (Western Samic)

★
★
★ Southern Sami

★
★
★ Ume Sami — Nearly extinct

★
★
★ Lule Sami

★
★
★ Pite Sami — Nearly extinct

★
★
★ Northern Sami

★
★ Eastern Sami (Eastern Samic)

★
★
★ Kainuu Sami — Extinct

★
★
★ Kemi Sami — Extinct

★
★
★ Inari Sami

★
★
★ Akkala Sami — Extinct (2003)

★
★
★ Kildin Sami

★
★
★ Skolt Sami

★
★
★ Ter Sami — Nearly extinct

★ Baltic-Finnic (Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic, Finnic, Fennic)

★
★ Estonian

★
★ Finnish (including Meänkieli or Tornedalian Finnish, Kven Finnish, and Ingrian Finnish)

★
★ Ingrian (Izhorian) — Nearly extinct

★
★ Karelian

★
★
★ Karelian proper

★
★
★ Lude (Ludic, Ludian)

★
★
★ Olonets Karelian (Livvi, Aunus, Aunus Karelian, Olonetsian)

★
★ Livonian (Liv) — Nearly extinct

★
★ Veps (Vepsian)

★
★ Võro (Voro, Võru, Voru; including Seto or Setu)

★
★ Votic (Votian, Vod) — Nearly extinct

References

1. Finno-Ugric languages at concise.britannica
2. The Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics; By Angela Marcantonio; p57; ISBN 0631231706