The Finnic languages, also known as Baltic Finnic languages, constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples.
Facts
RegionAround the Baltic Sea; speakers live mainly in Finland and Estonia, with smaller Finnic-speaking communities in Ingria, around the Gulf of Riga, and near Lakes Onega and Ladoga. 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusProto-Finnic is reconstructed and widely agreed to have been spoken at the coasts of the Gulf of Finland; a glottochronological estimate places the age of the common ancestor at a little more than 1000 years, though other estimates place early diversification considerably earlier. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Finnic Languages
Wikimedia FoundationIntroduction, first sentence
The Finnic languages, also known as Baltic Finnic languages, constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples.
Introduction, second sentence
who live mainly in Finland and Estonia
History section, final paragraph
There is now wide agreement that Proto-Finnic was probably spoken at the coasts of the Gulf of Finland.
Introduction, second sentence, speaker-count clause
There are around seven million speakers
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