Explore: Uralic Peoples

The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe

Kola Norwegians Uralic languages Shamanism in Siberia Lists of Indigenous peoples of Russia List of small-numbered Indigenous peoples of Russia Indigenous

well. The Nganasans are thought to be the direct descendants of proto-Uralic peoples. However there is some evidence that they absorbed a local Paleo-Siberian

Based on linguistic connections, the Finnic peoples are sometimes subsumed under Uralic-speaking peoples, uniting them also with the Samoyeds. The linguistic

languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria

dual identity of Kongo people. The concept of more kinds of souls can be found also in the mythologies of several Uralic peoples. See notion of shadow-soul

Samoyedic peoples (sometimes Samodeic peoples) are a group of closely related peoples who speak Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family

shamanism and religions of the Uralic peoples. Nattiez, p. 5 Deschênes 2002 Vaba, Lembit. "The Yukaghirs". The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.

presumably started to move to the northwest from the homeland of the early Uralic peoples in the second and third quarters of the 2nd millennium BC. On their

through long-term contact with neighboring peoples such as Iranic, Mongolic, Tocharian, Uralic and Yeniseian peoples. Many vastly differing ethnic groups have