Research at Finno-Ugric Languages

Our research is focused on the Finno-Ugric languages spoken in the central Volga region in Russia, i.e. on Mari, Mordvin and Udmurt. Our research topics include the structure and history of these languages and their relation with the Turkic languages of the area, Tatar and Chuvash. We are working in close collaboration with scholars of the Mari, Mordovia and Udmurt State Universities.  

We develop electronic corpora of the Finno-Ugric languages of the Volga area and promote the vitality of these languages. The Research Unit for Volgaic Languages, which operates under Finno-Ugric Languages, co-ordinates our research projects.

Hungarian, especially its lexicon, phraseology and language teaching, is also studied at Finno-Ugric Languages. 

Our themes for research include, for example

  • Lexicon in the languages of the Volga region
  • Language contacts in the Volga region
  • Structure of the languages in the Volga region
  • The development of literary languages in the Volga region
  • Dictionaries of the languages in the Volga region

Our central projects

Recent publications