Volga-Finnic languages

Volga-Finnic languages

Infobox Language family
name=Volga-Finnic
region=Russian Federation
familycolor=Uralic
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
fam3=Finno-Permic
fam4=Finno-Volgaic
child1=Mari language
child2=Mordvinic languages
iso2=fiu
The Volga-Finnic languages, also referred to as Volgaic are languages of Volga Finns, speakers of Finno-Ugric languages' subgroup containing Mari language (formerly Cheremis) and Mordvinic languages, which in turn comprises Moksha and Erzya. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cp-tB08yd2EC The Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics; By Angela Marcantonio; p57;] ISBN 0631231706] Known extinct Volga-Finnic languages include Merya language, Meshcherian language and Muromian language.

Volgaic together with the Baltic-Finnic language and the Sami languages form the Finno-Volgaic subgroup of Finno-Permic branch which are estimated to have split off undifferentiated Finno Ugric around the 3rd millennium BC. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=QGqWcZu42hUC The Finno-ugric republics and the Russian state By Rein Taagepera; ISBN 0415919770; p. 33] ] Volgaic itself is estimated to have differentiated into its various member language from around 1200 BC. [Encyclopedia Britannica s.v. "Volga-Finns".]

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