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ウラル語族 (ウラルごぞく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ウラル語ご族ぞく

Meanings

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noun

Uralic language family

Linguistic term for the language family that includes Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, and several minority languages of northern Eurasia.

フィンランド語ごやハンガリー語ごはウラル語ご族ぞくに属ぞくする。
Finnish and Hungarian belong to the Uralic language family.

Kanji

語word, speech, language
族tribe, family

Similar words

アルタイ語ご族ぞく
アルタイ語族 is a proposed but now largely rejected grouping that was once thought to include Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, sometimes also Korean and Japanese. ウラル語族 is a well-established family distinct from the Altaic hypothesis.

Etymology

From ウラル (Ural, referring to the Ural Mountains region) + 語族 (language family). The name reflects the proposed homeland of the language family near the Ural Mountains.