Re: Finno-Ugric languages

Aha.  The Proto-Uralic language is believed to have been spoken beneath
the Ural mountains at the great bend in the Volga, in that area.  The
speakers of Proto-Samoyedic went north and east;  the PFU speakers
stayed.  Later, Proto-Ugric speakers left and wend southeast, to where
the Khanty and Mansi are today.  The speakers of Proto-Hungarian
continued as far south as Iran, and then turned northwest and settled the
Carpathian basin in 896.  That's roughly the story of the Ugric branch.
On the Finnic side, the Komi and Udmurt stayed put, and inhabit more or
less the original area inhabited by PU speakers.  The others went west,
and stopped every now and then, but ever-smaller groups continued
westward.  This does not account for the Sami, however, because that is a
disputed question.

Hope this helps.

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Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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