Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery about the origins of Uralic languages. They were known to go back thousands of years, but who spoke them originally? To find out, researchers combined ...
Our understanding of the prehistory of the Finnish language is becoming clearer: Shifts in climate and periods of drought may have been the original reasons for which the community, which originated ...
Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish likely did not evolve in Europe, but instead were imported from Siberia at the beginning of the Iron Age 2,500 years ago. Most Europeans are descendants of a ...
The study identifies an ancestral population in Central Siberia linked to the origin of Uralic languages. Warrior funeral with bone armor plates in the Kyordyughen site in Central Siberia, from about ...
Northern Europeans who speak Uralic languages, such as Estonian and Finnish, can thank ancient migrating Siberian populations for their dialects, according to a fascinating new study that combined ...
Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought. The study finds ...
Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and Estonia. But that's not the full story. Researchers have solved a long-standing ...
A multidisciplinary research group from the University of Helsinki has renewed our understanding of the history of the Uralic language family and languages such as Finnish, Estonian, Saami and ...
Modern day Uralic-speaking people in Estonia, Finland, Hungary and Russia can trace their ancestry back to groups of ancient Uralic people by their DNA.David Keyton/AP PHoto/picture alliance ...