Ural Studies

The Uralic language family is a collective term for the ethnic groups that speak the Uralic languages. It has been linguistically proven that the Uralic languages ​​can be traced back to a common ancestor, and attempts to reconstruct the history of the Uralic language groups based on this common ancestor are being made in the fields of linguistics, folklore, ethnology, archaeology, physical anthropology, history, and other fields (collectively known as Uralology).
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The Uralic-speaking peoples, whose homeland is believed to be the west side of the Ural Mountains (some say the east side of the mountains is also included), are currently distributed widely across western Eurasia (56° to 70° east longitude) from Scandinavia to the Taimyr Peninsula, but they intermingle with Slavic, Germanic, Baltic, Turkic, and Tungusic peoples, and their distribution is often discontinuous.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Uralics" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…ウラル語族に属する諸言語を使用する民族群の総称。ウラル諸語は共通の祖語にさかのぼることが言語学的に証明されており，この同系性を基礎にウラル語系諸族の歴史を再構成する試みが言語学，民俗学，民族学，考古学，自然人類学，歴史学などの領域(これらをまとめてウラル学と称する)で行われている。
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　ウラル山脈の西側(山脈の東側も含むとの説もある)が原郷とされているウラル語系諸族は現在，スカンジナビアからタイミル半島に至る北方ユーラシア西部(東経56゜～70゜)に広く分布するが，スラブ，ゲルマン，バルト，チュルク，ツングース系諸族と交錯しあっており，分布は連続性を欠くところが多い。…

※「ウラル学」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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