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Finno-Ugric

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Finno-Ugric
/fin'oh ooh"grik, -yooh"-/, n.
1. the major branch of the Uralic family of languages, subdivided into Finnic, which includes Finnish and Estonian, and Ugric, which includes Hungarian.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to these languages.
[1875-80]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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