Our understanding of the prehistory of the Finnish language is becoming clearer: Shifts in climate and periods of drought may have been the original reasons for which the community, which originated ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and Etonia. But that's not the full story.Researchers have solved a long-standing ...

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. The study finds ...

A new study revealed that present-day speakers of Uralic languages — such as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian — share significant Siberian ancestry. Knewz.com has learned that researchers traced this ...

Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family and is most commonly spoken in Finland. It wasn’t recognized as an official language of Finland till 1863, before which Swedish was used for government ...

A multidisciplinary research group from the University of Helsinki has renewed our understanding of the history of the Uralic language family and languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Saami and ...