They tested the genomes of 180 ancient Uralic people, who lived 11,000-4,000 years ago across a huge area of Eurasia — mapping closely with the whole range of modern-day Russia and its neighbors ...

The speakers of the early Uralic languages, in the area bordered by the Volga and its tributaries Oka and Kama, learned agriculture and animal husbandry from their Indo-European neighbours in Europe.

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought.

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that dominate much of Europe. So where in the world did this family of languages ...

László Honti, Comments on Uralic historical phonology, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2013), pp. 1-68 ...

Russia's linguistic diversity is as expansive as the country itself. One language grouping represented in Russia is the Uralic languages, whose name comes from the Ural mountains, located in Central ...

Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery about the origins of Uralic languages. They were known to go back thousands of years, but who spoke them originally? To find out, researchers combined ...

Ancient Uralic people influenced modern culture Tambets, who is head of the Centre of Excellence of Estonian Roots, said the study is "the way" to solve questions about ancestry. "It pulls ...