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nounone of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)type of:
Definition that contains finnic
- mari the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
- finnish the official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages
- estonian the official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-Finnic family of languages
- karelian a Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia
- permic a group of Finnic languages spoken in the northwest Urals
- mordvinian the Finnic language spoken by the Mordvinians
- cheremis the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis
- vepsian a Finnic language spoken by the Veps
- ludian a Baltic-Finnic language
- carelian a Finnic language spoken by the people of Karelia