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 ...

Modern day Uralic-speaking people in Estonia, Finland, Hungary and Russia can trace their ancestry back to groups of ancient Uralic people by their DNA.David Keyton/AP PHoto/picture alliance ...

Northern Europeans who speak Uralic languages, such as Estonian and Finnish, can thank ancient migrating Siberian populations for their dialects, according to a fascinating new study that combined ...

Abstract: In this paper, the author poses three questions of historical phonology and gives explanations that are meant to be rational: 1. With respect to the ...

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 have ...

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 ...

Some of the best clues to evolution of the Estonian language come from its Finno-Ugric and Uralic cousins. Researchers face challenges from dwindling speaker numbers to restricted access in Russia, ...

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 ...