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Finno-Volgaic languages

Finno-Volgaic languages

Infobox Language family
name=Finno-Volgaic
region=Northern Fennoscandia, Baltic states, Southwestern and Southeastern Russia
familycolor=Uralic
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
fam3=Finno-Permic
child1=Baltic-Finnic languages
child2=Volga-Finnic languages
child3=Sami languages
iso2=fiu

Finno-Volgaic is a subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages that split from Finno-Permic languages about 2000 BC, containing nowadays Baltic-Finnic languages, Sami languages and Volga-Finnic languages. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=QGqWcZu42hUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA33,M1 Differentiation of Uralic languages over time] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=CPX2xgmVe9IC Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe] ]
Baltic-Finnic languages and Sami languages are sometimes grouped together under Finno-Lappic languages.

ee also

*Volga Finns

References


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