finnic in English
adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the group of Finno-Ugric languages that includes Finnish and Estonian.
The major languages of the indigenous minority and majority populations are Samisk, a Finnic language, and two official Norwegian languages, both of which are Germanic languages.
2
of, relating to, or denoting the group of peoples that includes the Finns and the Estonians.
Of the non-Slavic peoples, the Germanic, Jewish, and Finnic were the most important; Jews were rare except in the western borderlands.
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1. The word means "ear-shaped bread" in Finnic languages such as Udmurt and Komi.
2. Even though Bashkirs originally were of Ugric or Finnic tribes, they initially adopted the Bolgar language