Uralic peoples

The Uralic peoples or Uralic speaking peoples are the peoples speaking Uralic languages, divided into two larger groups: Finno-Ugric peoples and Samoyedic peoples. The Samoyeds consists of Northern Samoyed: Nenets, Enets and Nganasan, and Southern Samoyed: Selkup and now extinct Sayan Samoyed. The Finno-Ugric group contains two branches: Ugric including Ob-Ugric peoples the Mansi and Khanty and the Hungarians. The Finnic group has four sub-divisions: The Sami, considered originally not a Finno-Ugric people who adopted a finnic language. The Baltic Finns: Finns proper, Karelians, Ingrians, Vepsians, Votians, Estonians and Livonians, and the Volga Finns: the Mordvins subdivided into Moksha and Erza and the Mari, and the Permians.

History

Taken together recent knowledge of the Uralic studies, establishment of Proto-Uralic peoples go back to the Stone Age in the 5th millennium BC. Then, Proto-Ural divided into Proto-Samoyed and Proto-Finno-Ugric. The latter is the carrier of Pit–Comb Ware culture.