Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery about the origins of Uralic languages. They were known to go back thousands of years, but who spoke them originally? To find out, researchers combined ...

Our understanding of the prehistory of the Finnish language is becoming clearer: Shifts in climate and periods of drought may have been the original reasons for which the community, which originated ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought. The study finds ...

Modern day Uralic-speaking people in Estonia, Finland, Hungary and Russia can trace their ancestry back to groups of ancient Uralic people by their DNA.David Keyton/AP PHoto/picture alliance ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and Estonia. But that's not the full story. Researchers have solved a long-standing ...