Ugric languages

Ugric languages

Infobox Language family
name=Ugric
region=Hungary and Western Siberia
familycolor=Uralic
fam1=Uralic
fam2=Finno-Ugric
child1=Hungarian
child2=Ob-Ugric

Ugric or Ugrian languages IPAEng|ˈjuːɡrɨk, ˈjuːɡriən are a branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. The term derives from Yugra.

They include three languages: Hungarian (Magyar), and the Ob-Ugric languages, Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi language (Vogul). Their common Proto-Ugric language was probably spoken from the end of the 3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BCFact|date=April 2008, in Western Siberia, east from the southern Ural mountains.

tructural features

* Distinct verb conjugations according to the transitivity of the verb. It is sometimes termed as “definite” versus “indefinite” conjugation, because also the definiteness of the object can play a role when selecting between the two
* Verbal Prefixes - modify the meaning of the verb in both concrete and abstract ways

Examples from Mansi

ēl(a) - 'forwards, onwards, away'

jōm- 'to go, to stride'ēl-jōm- 'to go away/on'
tinal- 'to sell'ēl-tinal- 'to sell off'

χot - 'direction away from something and other nuances of action intensity'

min- 'to go'χot-min- 'to go away, to stop'
roχt- 'to be frightened'χot-roχt- 'to take fright suddenly'

Examples from Hungarian

el - 'away, off'

ugrik 'to jump'elugrik 'to jump away'
mosolyog 'to smile'elmosolyodik 'to start to smile'

ki - 'out (of)'

ugrik 'to jump'kiugrik 'to jump out'
olvas 'to read'kiolvas 'to read out'

(In Hungarian, the citation form of verbs is the 3rd person singular form, which is given here, which doesn't have any suffixes.)

ee also

* Finno-Ugric languages
* Uralic languages

References

* Riese, Timothy: Vogul. Languages of the World/Materials 158, [http://www.lincom.at Lincom Europa] , 2001. ISBN 3-89586-231-2
* Törkenczy, Miklós: Hungarian Verbs & Essentials of Grammar. Passport Books, 1997. ISBN 0-8442-8350-9


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