Indo-Uralic

Indo-Uralic
Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages; especially, of or pertaining to a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.

Perhaps the most widely accepted proposal is of an Indo-Uralic family, encompassing PIE and Proto-Uralic.

2. noun
The Indo-Uralic languages: a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.

Other proposals, further back in time (and correspondingly less accepted), model PIE as a branch of Indo-Uralic with a Caucasian substratum;


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