Langenesis

Uralic family

Proto-Finnic

c. 500 BCE – 500 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Finnic (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) is a reconstructed Uralic language. It has 5 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Finnic.

See Proto-Finnic on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Finnic languages around the Gulf of Finland. Dating varies (late 1st millennium BCE to mid-1st millennium CE); intermediate Finno-Samic stages are not tracked.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Finnicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE

Descendants 5

Sister languages 6

Also descended from Proto-Uralic.

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