Uralic languages

The Uralic languages (urj) constitute a language family of some three dozen related languages descended from a Proto-Uralic language and spoken by more than 25 million people throughout Europe and Northern Asia. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the Uralic languages with the most native speakers.

The master plan involves generating independent finite-state transducers for each language, and then making individual dictionaries and transfer rules for every pair. The current status of these goals is listed below.

Status

The ultimate goal is to have multi-purposable transducers for a variety of Uralic languages. These can then be paired for X→Y translation with the addition of a CG for language X and transfer rules / dictionary for the pair X→Y. Below is listed development progress for each language's transducers and dictionary pairs.

Transducers

Once a transducer has ~80% coverage on a range of medium-large corpora we can say it is "working". Over 90% and it can be considered to be "production".

name	language	native name	ISO 639		formalism	state	stems	paradigms	coverage	location	primary authors
			-2	-3
apertium-fin	Finnish	Suomen kieli	fi	fin	lttoolbox	production	408,216	1,526		apertium-fin (languages)	Trond, mie
apertium-myv	Erzya	eŕźań keĺ	–	myv	HFST (lexc+twol)	development		—		apertium-myv-fin (incubator)	Fran, Jack Rueter
apertium-mrj	Hill Mari	Мары йӹлмӹ	–	mrj	HFST (lexc+twol)	development		—		apertium-mrj-fin (incubator)	Fran, kuprina, jackrueter
apertium-olo	Livvi-Karelian	Livvi	–	olo	HFST (lexc+twol)	development		—		apertium-olo-fin (incubator)	Fran, rantakau, jackrueter
apertium-fkv	Kven	Kainun kieli	–	fkv	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-fkv-fin (incubator)	Fran, nikerabbit
apertium-sme	Northern Sami	davvisámegiella	sm	sme	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-eus-sme (incubator)	Linda
apertium-udm	Udmurt	удмурт кыл	–	udm	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-udm-rus (nursery)	Fran, Trond, Andrey, Лукерья, Алексей
apertium-hun	Hungarian	magyar	hu	hun	lttoolbox	prototype	138	50		apertium-hun (incubator)	mie
apertium-kpv	Komi-Zyrian	Коми кыв	–	kpv	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-kpv-mhr (incubator)	Fran, Trond, Fedina, Andrei Chemyshev
apertium-mhr	Meadow Mari	Олык Марий	–	mhr	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-kpv-mhr (incubator)	Fran, Fedina, Andrei Chemyshev
apertium-est	Estonian	eesti keel	et	est	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype		—		apertium-fin-est (incubator)	Fran
apertium-smj	Lule Sami	julevsámegiella	–	smj	lttoolbox	prototype		—		apertium-sme-smj (incubator)	Fran, Linda
apertium-liv	Livonian	līvõ kēļ	–	liv	HFST (lexc+twol)	?		—		apertium-liv-fin (incubator)	Fran, rblumber, jackrueter
apertium-sma	Southern Sami	Åarjelsaemien gïele	–	sma	lttoolbox	?		—		apertium-sme-sma (nursery)	Fran, Trond, rtxanson, leneant, makappfj

Uralic languages by subgroup

All Uralic languages are thought to have descended, through independent processes of language change, from Proto-Uralic. The traditional classification is as follows:

• Samoyedic languages
• Finno-Ugric → Ugric (Ugrian)
  • Hungarian
  • Ob-Ugric languages (Ob Ugrian)
    • Khanty
    • Mansi
• Finno-Ugric → Finno-Permic (Permian-Finnic)
  • Permic languages: Komi (Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak), Udmurt
  • Finno-Volgaic languages (Finno-Cheremisic, Finno-Mari)
    • Mari: Meadow Mari, Hill Mari
    • Mordvinic languages: Erzya
    • Finno-Lappic languages (Finno-Saamic, Finno-Samic)
      • Sami languages: Northern Sami, Southern Sami, Inari Sami, Lule Sami
      • Finnic languages: Finnish, Estonian, Võro, Kven, Livonian

Existing language pairs

Text in italic denotes language pairs under development / in the incubator. Regular text denotes a functioning language pair in staging, while text in bold denotes a stable well-working language pair in trunk.

	hun	fin	fkv	liv	olo	mrj	myv	udm	kpv	sme	sma	mhr	est	smj
hun	-	fin-hun
fin	fin-hun	-	fkv-fin	liv-fin	olo-fin	mrj-fin	myv-fin	fin-udm	kpv-fin	sme-fin			fin-est
fkv		fkv-fin	-
liv		liv-fin		-
olo		olo-fin			-
mrj		mrj-fin				-
myv		myv-fin					-
udm		fin-udm						-
kpv		kpv-fin							-			kpv-mhr
sme		sme-fin								-	sme-sma			sme-smj
sma										sme-sma	-
mhr									kpv-mhr			-
est		fin-est											-
smj										sme-smj				-
deu										sme-deu
eng	hun-eng	fin-eng
epo	eo-hu	eo-fi
eus	eu-hu									eus-sme
nob										sme-nob
rus								udm-rus
spa										sme-spa

Samples

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Language	Text
Finnish	Kaikki ihmiset syntyvät vapaina ja tasavertaisina arvoltaan ja oikeuksiltaan. Heille on annettu järki ja omatunto, ja heidän on toimittava toisiaan kohtaan veljeyden hengessä.
Saami, Northern	Buot olbmot leat riegádan friddjan ja olmmošárvvu ja olmmošvuoigatvuoðaid dáfus dássásažžab, Sudhuude kea addib huervnu ha ianedivdym ha vyigjat gakget neabbydut gyunnuudeaset gyivdy vuekhakaš vuoiŋŋain.
Hungarian	Minden. emberi lény szabadon születik és egyenlő méltósága és joga van. Az emberek, ésszel és lelkiismerettel bírván, egymással szemben testvéri szellemben kell hogy viseltessenek.
Estonian	Kõik inimesed sünnivad vabadena ja võrdsetena oma väärikuselt ja õigustelt. Neile on antud mõistus ja südametunnistus ja nende suhtumist üksteisesse peab kandma vendluse vaim.

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Uralic languages vulnerability

This table summarizes the vulnerability of various Uralic languages. Data is derived from the ‘Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, © UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas’.

Language	ISO639-3	Areas	Vulnerability
Livonian	liv	Latvia	Critically endangered (4)
South Saami	sma	Norway, Sweden	Severely endangered (3)
Lule Saami	smj	Norway, Sweden	Severely endangered (3)
Csángó Hungarian	hun	Romania	Severely endangered (3)
Western Mari	mrj	Russian Federation	Severely endangered (3)
Võro-Seto	est	Estonia, Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)
Eastern Mari	mhr	Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)
Komi	kpv	Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)
Udmurt	udm	Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)
North Saami	sme	Finland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden	Definitely endangered (2)
Olonetsian	olo	Finland, Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)
Erzya	myv	Russian Federation	Definitely endangered (2)

See also

• Volga-Kama languages