Ugric languages
Ugric or Ugrian languages (pronounced /ˈjuːɡrɨk, ˈjuːɡriən/) are a branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. The term derives from Yugra.
They include three languages: Hungarian (Magyar), and the Ob-Ugric languages, Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi language (Vogul). Their common Proto-Ugric language was probably spoken from the end of the 3rd millennium BC until the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in Western Siberia, east from the southern Ural mountains.
Structural features
Distinct verb conjugations according to the transitivity of the verb. It is sometimes termed as “definite” versus “indefinite” conjugation, because also the definiteness of the object can play a role when selecting between the two
Verbal Prefixes - modify the meaning of the verb in both concrete and abstract ways
Examples from Mansi
ēl(a) - 'forwards, onwards, away' <table border=1> <tr><td>jōm- 'to go, to stride'</td><td>ēl-jōm- 'to go away/on'</td></tr> <tr><td>tinal- 'to sell'</td><td>ēl-tinal- 'to sell off'</td></tr> </table>
χot - 'direction away from something and other nuances of action intensity' <table border=1> <tr><td>min- 'to go'</td><td>χot-min- 'to go away, to stop'</td></tr> <tr><td>roχt- 'to be frightened'</td><td>χot-roχt- 'to take fright suddenly'</td></tr> </table>
Examples from Hungarian
el - 'away, off' <table border=1> <tr><td>ugrik 'to jump'</td><td>elugrik 'to jump away'</td></tr> <tr><td>mosolyog 'to smile'</td><td>elmosolyodik 'to start to smile'</td></tr> </table>
ki - 'out (of)' <table border=1> <tr><td>ugrik 'to jump'</td><td>kiugrik 'to jump out'</td></tr> <tr><td>olvas 'to read'</td><td>kiolvas 'to read out'</td></tr> </table>
In Hungarian, the citation form of verbs is the 3rd person singular form, which is given here, which doesn't have any suffixes.
Translation of "Ugric languages"
Afrikaans: Oegriese tale, Alemannic: Ugrische Sprachen, Arabic: لغات أوغرية, Breton: Yezhoù ougrek, Catalan: Llengües úgriques, Chuvash: Укăр чĕлхисем, Czech: Ugrické jazyky, German: Ugrische Sprachen, Erzya: Угрань кельть, Spanish: Lenguas ugrias, Esperanto: Ugra lingvaro, French: Langues ougriennes, Manx: Çhengaghyn Oogragh, Upper Sorbian: Ugriske rěče, Croatian: Ugarski jezici, Italian: Lingue ugriche, Lithuanian: Ugrų kalbos, Hungarian: Ugor nyelvek, Dutch: Oegrische talen, Japanese: ウゴル諸語, Norwegian (Nynorsk): Ugriske språk, Occitan: Lengas ogricas, Polish: Języki ugryjskie, Portuguese: Línguas úgricas, Romanian: Limbi ugrice, Russian: Угорские языки, Slovak: Ugorské jazyky, Serbo-Croatian: Ugarski jezici, Finnish: Ugrilaiset kielet, Swedish: Ugriska språk, Chinese: 乌戈尔语支.
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