The Finnic languages are located at the western end of the Uralic language family. A close affinity to their northern neighbors, the Sámi languages, … 展开

There is no grammatical gender in any of the Finnic languages, nor are there articles or definite or indefinite forms.
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The Finnic languages form a complex dialect continuum with few clear-cut boundaries. Innovations have often spread through a variety of areas, even after variety-specific changes.
A broad twofold conventional division of the Finnic varieties … 展开

These features distinguish Finnic languages from other Uralic families:
Sound changes
Sound changes shared by the various Finnic languages include the following:
• Development of long vowels and … 展开

• Proto-Finnic language
• Birch bark letter no. 292 展开

1. ^ Other variants of the name include Balto-Finnic, Fennic, Balto-Fennic and Baltic Fennic languages. The term Finnic languages has also been used as a synonym of the extensive group of Finno-Permic languages, including the Baltic Finnic, 展开

• Salminen, Tapani A. "Problems in the taxonomy of the Uralic languages in the light of modern comparative studies". Helsinki.
• Schalin, J. (ed.). "Lexicon of Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish". 展开