Did you know that most of the different languages we speak today can actually be placed in only a couple of groups by their ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

The westward spread of Uralic languages happened approximately 4,200-3,900 years ago, first to the central Volga region and later to the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic.

All of the languages illustrated here stem from subcategories of either Indo-European or Uralic origin, and upon closer inspection many fascinating links are revealed.

She adds: “I’ve always been fascinated by just how large the cultural and geographic sprawl of the people who speak Indo-European languages is, while the Uralic languages are limited to a relatively ...

But nestled between them sits Finland. For no apparent reason, the languages spoken there, categorized as Uralic, bear no resemblance to those of their neighbors.

Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But only European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also ...

Greeks speak a language which is an almost entirely separate branch of Indo-European languages (as in the classical tree by Schleicher [23] represented in fig. 2; see also [24]).