Talk:Finnic languages

message: Move to Baltic-Finnic languages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippophaë~enwiki (talk • contribs) 18:43, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved. violet/riga (t) 18:07, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Who invented this South Estonian language ?
I think such language (as language, not group of dialects with shared vocabulary) is totally bogus and certainly it does not deserve any different status than Savo Finnish or East Finnish and many similar groupings.
Also, I think that one 'language' Võro being part of other 'language' 
South Estonian language is an oxymoron, language subgroups are usually called dialects.
I am totally open to suggestion that Võro-Seto is a separate language and not an Estonian dialect as it has different grammar than Estonian. But dialects of Viljandi county (supposedly part of that South Estonian language) do not use that distinct Võro-Seto grammar at all, the use Estonian grammar. So they speak no more Võro language than Estonians of Kodavere parish speak Votian. In my opinion, if Võro is a separate language then the Võro language is a substratum of Tartu and Viljandi dialects of Estonian language (not that they all constitute the so called South Estonian language). Southern Estonian dialects were grouped together just because they have words not present in other dialects. That is not how languages are defined. Language definition includes Mutual intelligibility so if somebody wants to say people in Viljandi county speak South Estonian language, then they should understand Seto better that Estonian which I am sure is not the case.  
Remove South Estonian language from the language list?
Warbola 21:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems South Estonian is as different as Votic or Livonian. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8 --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii (talk) 15:27, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  I seriously doubt South Estonian language exists 

message: Aikio, Termer, would you take a look at Finnic peoples? If Finns identify only with Baltic Finnic speakers, this should be reflected in the scope of that article. kwami (talk) 19:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnic peoples 

message: There are various theories which assert that the Basque language is somehow related to the Balto-Finnic language group. It would be interesting if the article could mention these hypotheses. ADM (talk) 00:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Theory" means that someone has verified the idea. There are no such theories. kwami (talk) 01:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Basque language

message: As far as I know Mordovin is not generally count as part of Finnic but as a highly close relative? or if so, I doubt it to be uncontested. --ValtteriLahti12 (talk) 08:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Mordovin?

message: ValtteriLahti12 a native Russian speaker hadn't heard the term in Russia or hadn't read the article Mordvinic languages itself since he uses incorrect English spelling of the term. Why the term is obsolete? Because it has been based on the Soviet period artificially constructed nation (see the articleMordvins first). Please kindly comment before removing the template See respective discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mordvinic_languages#About_the_proposed_merge_with_Finnic discussion. Vaultralph1 (talk) 10:16, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Noting that this is likely block evasion from . TylerBurden (talk) 13:23, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mordovin (see above) seems to be a wrong spelling Mordvinic?