History of the Uralic Languages 

"Aight imma head out" -Hungarian

I'm Finnish, and I feel sad that the other Finno-ugric languages are slowly disappearing. It hits the hardest when I see them written or hear them spoken because they are so similar to Finnish. It's like finding out you have a distant relative somewhere who's slowly dying and you can't do anything to save them. I wish they could be preserved.

Hungarians:*Living with their Uralic brothers* Some funny looking deer: Yo catch me b*tch Hungarians:*Ight imma head to Europe*

Finally a video that shows the seperation of Hungarian, always wondered how the hell its so far away and so different compared to Finnish, Karelian, Estonian and Saami languages. Thumbs up

[All the other languages slowly fading away] Hungary: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move

Fun fact, in Hungary there is a historical story, when the separated Hungarians met again: A priest, Friar Julian (Hungarian: “Julian's friend”) was one of a group of Hungarian Dominican friars / priests who, in 1235, left the kindom in order to find those Magyars who - according to the chronicles and the old Hungarian myths - remained in the eastern homeland. After traveling a great distance, Friar Julian reached the capital of Volga Bulgaria, where he was notified by a women that the Magyars whom he wants to find lived only two days' travel away. Julian found them, and despite the gap of at least 300-400 years since the split between the Magyars (Hungarian tribes) that settled in Pannonia (Central-Eastern EU) and those that were found near at the Ural hills. Their language remained mutually intelligent, and they were able to communicate. Julian named the old country Magna Hungaria (Great Hungary). He became aware of stories about the Tatars, who were the enemies of the eastern Magyars and Volga Bulgars. Two years after the original journey, Julian returned to Magna Hungaria, only to find it had been devastated by the Mongol Tatars. He returned to his kingdom with news of mortal danger and a Mongol ultimatum to Hungary. The significance of Julian’s travels is he was the first one to bring real, valid and well documented information about Hungarians / Hungarian speakers living in “Magna Hungary".

Hungarian language is really a survivor. It would have been disappeared in the Indo-European sea, but it didn't

Everybody: Hungary where are you going? Hungary: Brb just a sec.

Ingrian is noted in the map with dark blue. It has been forgotten in the caption.

At least Estonia, Finland and Hungary will be safe

Me earlier that day: "Maybe he should do finno-ugric languages..." After logging into RU-vid: "He has actually done it!"

The movement of tribes most likely used to be far more complicated than that, but with only Hungarian having surviving records of them.

That's an absolutely brilliant visualisation -- makes the connection between Hungarian and Finnish obvious and reminds us that there were other major language besides proto Indo-European. Subscribed. :)

Уща уԓа!(Uscha ula!)(Hello in khantylanguage!) It's really painful. I'm khanty and I was born in the north, right there, where it all started in this video. I am sorry that in Russia all the small nationalities speak only Russian, and I hate it, some Politicians in the old days forbade speaking our native language, took the people by force and Christianized them, killed my khanty people. Yes, in Russia they didn’t tell khanty about this at school, but older people remember it. And the new generation does not stady our native language, but Chinese, English and other languages of globalization. I am happy that there are Finno-Ugric countries like Hungary, Estonia and Finland. I would dream that my people would sound and speak their own language and have our separated territory. I try to promote my native language, and I hope there are those who will develop their culture! I'm proud that our roots are the same! I'm stand for our finno-ugric family!

Thank you for such a beautiful video 🥰 I'm sure this took a lot of effort to make .We will persevere 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇭🇺+Other remaining Uralics

Hungari-IN 4:47 Hargari-OUT 5:39

Преогромнейшее СПАСИБО!!! Очень хорошо сделано. А музыку подобрали какую!!! .. -- лучше и не подберёшь: в ней -- и давность событий, из глубины веков --хронология; и -- трагичность; и -- историческая ценность. В ней -- всё! Спасибо! Отличная работа. Да... финно-угорские языки вымирают. К превеликому сожалению! Сама я -- коми. Меня это лично затрагивает и очень глубоко волнует. И, кажется, что ничего уже не изменить. Страшно становится от этих мыслей. Со своими родными и друзьями свободно и легко говорим по-коми. Но так не повсюду.

Hello to uralic people - from your once upon a time neighbour ,an indo iranian

So sad to see the Uralic languages slowly fade away when the Russian Expansion starts

Just watching my ethnicity, Mari, to form so early

Dear Finn-Ugoric and Uralic brothers and sisters, as it seems we are in the last hour to save our whole language family! :( I collected some old Hungarian word, check it on your own language! víz (water), szarv (horn), szarvas (deer), kéz (arm), szem (eye), száj (mouth), ín (tendon), fej (head), tar (bald), ki (who), mi (what), anya/Eme (mother), fa (tree), vér (blood), kő (stone), tűz (fire), szél (wind), nyíl (arrow), hal (fish), él (live), jég (ice), vén (old), menni (go), alatt (under), fölé (above), rege (old story), yurta (tent-house), lyuk (hole), monya/tojás (egg), puha (soft), van (is), fúr (drill), hó/lom (snow). egy kettő három négy öt hat hét nyolc kilenc tiz (1-10), húsz (20), száz (100)

3:46 now I don't wonder Why Mari language sounds sometimes similar to Hungarian and why the second and third closest branches to Hungarian are Mari and the Permic languages(Komi and Udmurt) . Hungarian was surrounded by Ob-Ugric, Mari and Permic language

Hungarians around 1000: "Where the fuck are we??" - "Idk"

Hungarians just went to buy a milk (amazing video btw)

It's just crazy how we, hungarians moved thousands of km-s to the west, surviving 1200 years, nations, wars, tatars, turks, Ottoman Empire, german, russian... preserving our dearest language, culture!

Good job, Costas! It was definitely complicated video to make. As an Estonian I think many actual details remain in mystery because lack of written hard evidence. Ancient histories of Greek, Romanic and Germanic languages are therefore understood much better. Uralic history is much based on theories of linguists. Nitpicking on ancient details is pointless.

I hope that as many Uralic languages as possible will be saved somehow, and thoroughly documented as well. Uralic languages carry the essence of our Uralic cultures and our sense of related identities. With every language lost, we loose bits of ourselves, since words and how we use them are voices of our ancestors. I'm a Finn (of mixed Savo and Tornio River ethnicities), and I've been mourning the violence of russification. Local and regional languages of all indigenous peoples in Russia are fast going extinct, unless something dramatic is done. With every language saved we would preserve a certain view to the world. Our view...

Наконец-то я нашел материалы, как распространялась по миру Уральская семья языков.Я живу на Урале.Наблюдая за венграми в интернете, слушая их новости, я заметил ту особенность, что сами венгры внешностью и стилем рассуждений поразительно похожи на окружающих меня родственников-уральцев.

It’s so sad to see this unique language getting wiped out overtime. I wish the Russian government could preserve this language. Fantastic video my friend. As for a suggestion could you do a history of the Armenian, Albanian, or the indo-Iranian language

Great video, thanks for creating it. I have just one remark. As far as I know when Hungarians started their migration, the nation split up in two parts, and one part stayed in their original homeland, so not all Hungarians moved away. The group which stayed called "Eastern Hungarians", and they lived there until the middle of the XIII. century. Although I'm not a professional, just an enthusiast, so if you are a professional, please correct me if I'm wrong. Greetings from Hungary!

As a linguist from Finland, I can say it would be glorious to compare the Uralic languages (at least the Finnic ones) but due to the low number of speakers/lack of written text it's very hard to review the similarities. I had to opt the Romance languages as my target group (I've also been comparing Germanic and Slavic tongues), the sad thing is that I can't understand any Indo-European language based on my native one, Finnish. It does suck.

THANK YOU! I wanted a video like this very bad! Thank you for making this!

Do the history of the Sino-Tibetan languages!

A live fish swims underwater. Estonian: Elav kala ujub vee all. Finnish: Elävä kala ui veden alla. Hungarian: Eleven hal úszik a víz alatt. or Finnish: Elävä kala uiskentelee veden alla. Hungarian: Eleven hal úszkál a víz alatt.

great video. l really love your language family mapping videos. can't wait to see a video about turkic languages

This is awesome video. Just shows the huge diversity of finno-ugric languages. Sadly most of them have either faded away or are on the verge of dying

Such a great video! You put so much detail in these!

Love Hungary from Slovakia 🇸🇰♥️🇭🇺

Hunagry's travel notes: -7th century - Yeah, it's time to go in non-searched lands, so I'm gonna on far West, It'll be awesome travel! -8th century - Ok, so, It's may sea, but in here isn't exisits waves... Hmmm... Maybe a big lake? -9th century - Oh, finally I found real sea. Near these is river, everywhere are steppes, but on south are mountains. -10th Ohhh... I'm tired. I musted pass a very big mountains. Ok, I'm done to create settlement right there. -Little later, but it's still 10th century - Wtf, I found a civilization. They are really progressive! Here is really nice! I'll develop like them people. They Wants to I will christianize himself. Ok, let's christianize! I'm feels so good!

Vi uma reportagem no jornal no inicio dos anos 2000 sobre os últimos falantes nativos da lingua livônia que habitavam a Letônia. Infelizmente a tendência é das línguas minoritárias desaparecem.

4:59 When you've had enough of North Siberian winters.

5:00 Hungarians, For you to take the entirety of your nation out of their homeland, lead them through other peoples land in a random direction travelling for 300 years and then settling in a random part of Europe is just crazy!

Excellent video, and, unlike so many others on RU-vid, scientifically up to date. My hat off to the uploader.

Khanty and Mansy: "we'll be besties forever" Hungarian: "nah" *goes away* Khanty and Mansy: *dissolve*

I subscribed. Waiting for Turkic languages. Greetings from the Chuvash Republic.

It's very interesting to see the Hungarians travel so far from there ancestral homeland all the way to Europe their end however is very sad thought especially after WW2 Πάντως το βίντεο ήταν φοβερό Κόστα συγχαρητήρια

Me as a Finn, it really gives me tears watching this ;)

Excellent video, and in my opinion seriously needed. It would be awesome if one day you could take all these language families maps and put them together. At least for certain regions. Also, while Livonian, not being extinct, hasn't any native speaker left, I think there are yet a handful of Votic speakers in Luga River region. I think that perhaps you precipitated yourself by take them out of the map yet.

Hungarian history is amazing.

Great work. You should make a video with the spread of ALL the languagues in Europe in the same time!

This is a very moving video, thank you! According to the most recent archaeological studies the Hungarians robably never went south into the grass-steppe zone, but stayed on the boundary between forest and steppe when they travelled to the West, benefitting from both biospheres on the northern fringes of the steppe.

Thank you from Hungary!

I cant believe that all these languages has been connected all the time while Indo-European languages were doing their own thing. I live in the Ural and I wish Uralic languages were more widespread so I could speak them

Hungaians: Listen, we are gonna go explore a bit then come back, ok? *Last seen 1000 years ago*

Acording to increasing number of recearchers the Uralic Languages Family: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jWi1vgG8-sI.html

I'm proud to be Finnish!

I love how Hungarian in 5:09 is like "meh, you know what, I'm moving out of here" 😄

please make history of the causasian languages

Hello Magyars. Your ancestors had a very good idea to go west. You left your Asian cousins, and become Central Europeans. Excellent move. :)

Could you please make a video about Austronesian languages? That would be very interesting

Very interesting how Hungarian got to Central/Eastern/Southern Europe from Central/Western Asia!!

It's sad seeing them all fade away...

Epique . I think that importance of exchange and influences between Protouralic People and Protoslavic People is still underatted and has lots of important levels linguistic, ethnic etc.

Hungary ending up in the Pannonian basin seems like such a complicated linguistic shift along a panhandle or something and then you find out they literally just walked there

What a beautiful family of languages and culture! It's sad that the majority were slavicized... ;-;

Yesterday i was trying to find if you did a video about them. Coincidence.

Hungarians, being sent to gulags by Stalin after WWII in the málenkij robot: *"Boys, I have returned"*

The Hungarian migration is probably the most interesting part, IMO

Hey. Congratulations for your channel. Your History of languages vidéos are very accurate! Could you do one, with all the languagues at the same time? It may help to put in context lots of movements

Great video!

Very sad to see them fade away

Lovely video :)

I think Proto-Saamic formed in Finland, and not in northern Scandinavia. This is supported by the evidence of words which are clearly non-Uralic and is theorized to demonstrate a substratum found only in Saami languages. This indicates that Proto-Saamic was formed not in that region but outside and later influenced by the so-called Proto-Laplandic languages.

Great video, can’t wait to see Iranian (including Scythian)

Great video. Is the uralic-IE theory still a thing? The origin place of both groups is so close. Waiting to see the evolution of the whole IE group, like this one, will be very great too.

It's interesting to see him doing an entire family at once instead of just a group

Some adjustments. The language on the territory of Estonia was divided into northern and southern since a very long time, it is a very old division, these are two different languages ​​in fact. Izhorian language and eastern Finnish dialects (North and South Karelia, Savo, the Karelian Isthmus in Russia) are part of the Karelian dialect continuum, and not Western Finnish Karelian (Izhorians) came to the south of the Gulf of Finland to the region of the Votic language relatively late - apparently in the high Middle Ages. The Vodic language did not have such a large range in the Middle Ages; it did not occupy the Pskov and Novgorod regions, which were completely Slavicized from the 8th century, and only the western regions of the Leningrad Region were much smaller than on the map. The Sami lived much south for a considerable time, even in the early Middle Ages, apparently, inhabited most of Republic of Karelia and neighboring territories Karelians, on the contrary, practically didn’t populate the territory east of Lake Onega and on the shores of the White Sea from the 14-15th century, when the Slavs settled there, before the Slavs, apparently, some group related to the Veps lived there for a short time, and before the Veps, apparently - the Sami. Finno-Ugric population in most of the Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblast as the absolute majority of the population in the 15th centuries is doubtful The center of the Kirov region and the middle course of the Vyatka river were occupied by Slavs for a very long time, even the main hydronymy of the region speaks of it (the name of the region’s main river is Vyatka, purely Slavic, therefore the mass Finno-Ugric presence is absolutely throughout the region, and not only on its southern borders up to the 19th century is simply unrealistic) Also unrealistic is the presence of moksha on the left bank of the Oka River until the 18th century, when this territory was completely Slavicized from the 10-12th centuries, when the Muroma tribe lived there. The territories of Nizhny Novgorod and the central regions of the oblast lost the Finnish-speaking population in the 12-14th centuries, when it was the center of a powerful East Slavic principality, and not in the 17-18th. In the south and south-west of the Nizhny Novgorod region, not Moksha lives, but Erzya, Moksha and Erzya don't divide Mordovia clearly in half, that Moksha on the left and Erzya on the right. It's somewhat more complicated, Erzya lives not only east of Moksha, but also envelops it from the north, remaining in small numbers in the southern regions, the remainder of this Erzya still lives in the west of Mordovia, called Shoksha The ancestors of the Mordovians and Mari were corroded back in the early Middle Ages, Turkic Bulgars lived between them, and now the Chuvash live, whose language is a direct descendant of the Bulgarian. Udmurts did not live throughout the entire territory of Udmurtia initially, mainly only in the south and south-west, they gradually settled north and east from the northern regions of Tatarstan (north and east of Arsk) and the southern regions of the Kirov region (Malmyzh), they settled in large numbers in the north of Udmurtia only in the 16-17th century, before them there lived until the 15th century representatives of the Chepetsk culture, apparently related to the Komi-Permyaks. As for the Udmurts, it was still a bit more complicated, but it took a long time to paint it.

i'm Nenets, and i would like to know Nenets and Finnish languages (i know only russian😢)

Great job

Would be nice if you also in the end showed a chart of how they split.

Great video, greatings from Bulgaria it was us who pushed the Hungarians to migrate west of the carpathian mountains.

Interesting... Thanks

I am Iranian How sad that a nation of this size is not united I hope that the country of Uralic languages will be formed in the future Peace be upon Uralik languages from Iran

Nice!

Languages gradually die without state sovereignty.

you didnt show all the different saami languages, theyre really different actually, was that to make it less crowded or lack of information, much respect

Hmmm, so this is where *PERKELE* comes from.

Thank you ^^

Historian here with a question for any linguists who see this. All the linguistic models your discipline has constructed bring us to small set of proto-languages like Proto-Indo-European. What do linguists think they know about whether or not these proto-languages represent the beginnings of language? Do we imagine that these are all there was, because language itself was relatively new? Or, do we believe that they are only the few that we can reconstruct with many others being extinct and therefore now invisible to us? We all talk quite a bit about how languages tend to diversify and multiply in isolation (i.e. Caucasus mountains) but transport and communication technologies (not to mention empires) decrease language variation. So in the deep past, is it really possible to have to only had this small handful of languages? I would expect to see many, many languages (even if we can't detect what they were anymore.). Am I wrong? Any kind linguists want to help this mildly confused historian understand?

hungary be like : 700 ac BYE guys miss you late ........ oh hi guys , 900 ac Romenia : who are you ? hungary : am a new friend :)

It's guesswork. Based on some theories yes, but still guesswork. Currently the most popular view is that there never was a Finno-Ugric phase which you showed in the beginning. The constructions of Proto Finno-Ugric is so similar with Proto-Uralic, they don't think Finno-Ugric phase ever existed. Also there's support to the comb-model family tree, with much less proto languages.

i did a dna test and unexpectedly i got 30 percent erzya and i wanted to learn and do little research about their history on google it says erzya is part of uralic language family group and people but they have no representation or mention in any of uralic history videos?? are they not part of that group or they are just uncharted??

This map is pretty inaccurate. To mention just some of the biggest problems: 1. By about 2500 BCE the proto-Finnic and proto-Ugric branchs have already separated from one another. 2. Hungarian lost contact with related languages around 500-600 CE and was already on the Eastern-European steppes, not next to the Mansi and Khanty 3. Finnish was only present in the Southern and Western parts of Finland, until about the 1300's the entire peninsula was dominated by Saami 4. The map shows the Hungarian conquest taking place over 200 years after it actually did. 5. Hungarian presence in the Carpathian Basin was much more prominent than shown both before 1241 and 1541, two periods that did a number on the country. 6. Estonian seems to have too big of a range in 2020

We MUST preserve these dying cultures and languages

i have a few criticism of this video: you portrayed mari way smaller than it actually is, same for udmurt. nenets form a majority in many areas of siberia, even today saamis have majority areas in the north. you deleted kamasins too fast. mansi is larger than that you forgot some south selkup dialects you made karelian die too fast, and put the area of extinction in the wrong places, for example karelians form a majority in the south while minorities in the east. completely forgot tver karelians livonian still exists no mention of ludza, also it still kinda exists mari still form a wast majority in some areas forgot finns in sweden forgot kvens should have put kven and meänkieli as independent languages in 2004 made kildin saami too huge you completely took off south saami, even though it still exists

Why did hungarians move away to central Europe? If they didn’t move to, what would have happened ? Would they be stateless ethnic group in Russia or independent nation?

6:10 "But everything changed when the firenation attacked"

In 2022, a group of scholars have presented evidence that the Proto-Uralic Homeland was located somewhere in Western Siberia and spoken by hunter-gatherers, later spreading along rivers into the Volga region, and subsequently expanding westwards and eastwards. The spread of Uralic languages may be in part due to the Seima-Turbino phenomenon, although no direct link between them can be made. Cultural technology of proto-Uralic can be described as "Neolithic", as it included pottery but no vocabulary for food production. They note that Uralic and Indo-European may be distant sister languages (Indo-Uralic), as proposed by Anthony and Ringe (2015), but that "whether based on cognacy or loans the argument from lexical resemblances is flawed". Many cognates may be explained by later contact with the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. They also found that the vocabulary of the Samoyedic branch is often quite "un-Uralic" which may point to a substratum among Samoyedic, although they did not found conclusive evidence for borrowings from an unknown language. Lastly they noted that "a number of typological properties are eastern-looking overall, fitting comfortably into northeast Asia, Siberia, or the North Pacific Rim".[35] According to Bjørn Rasmus G., the Proto-Uralic speakers may be associated with the Okunev culture in the Altai region. Proto-Uralic, according to Rasmus G. Bjørn, stood in areal contact with the Proto-Turkic language, and both later with Indo-European languages (specifically Tocharian and Iranian languages).[36]

When the main Uralic languages started fading 😭

I don't fucking understand why turks claim that Hungarians are turkic people, there is no normal reason for it