Ugric or Ugrian languages 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 BC, in Western Siberia, east from the southern Ural mountains.

Structural 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

?l(a) - 'forwards, onwards, away'

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

Examples from Hungarian

el - 'away, off'

ki - 'out (of)'

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

See also

• Finno-Ugric languages
• Uralic languages

References

• Riese, Timothy: Vogul. Languages of the World/Materials 158, 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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