Proto-Mordvinic language

The Mordvinic languages, also known as the Mordvin, Mordovian or Mordvinian languages (Russian: мордовские языки, mordovskiye yazyki), are a subgroup

Proto-Samic Proto-Mordvinic Proto-Permic Proto-Mansi Proto-Khanty Proto-Samoyed Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan Proto-Indo-European Proto-Tocharian Proto-Ainu Proto-Dravidian

Samic as well as the Mordvinic languages. E.g.: The change is, however, masked by the shift of *ë to *a (which later develops to Proto-Samic *uo) in words

the Finnic languages and its closest external relatives — usually understood to be the Sami languages, though also the Mordvinic languages may derive

Proto-Sámi is the hypothetical, reconstructed common ancestor of the Sámi languages. It is a descendant of the Proto-Uralic language. Although the current