With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction. Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the latest. The same holds true ...
Some of the best clues to evolution of the Estonian language come from its Finno-Ugric and Uralic cousins. Researchers face challenges from dwindling speaker numbers to restricted access in Russia, ...