Finno-Ugric languages

Finno-Ugric is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic family except the Samoyedic languages, including the three most widely spoken Uralic languages: Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian. Its status as a genuine subfamily rests on criteria formulated in the nineteenth century and is questioned by contemporary linguists such as Tapani Salminen and Ante Aikio; before the twentieth century the family was known under names including Finnish, Ugric and Finno-Hungarian, with the name Finno-Ugric itself becoming standard only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.