Proto-Uralic language

Proto-Uralic
(may be equivalent to Proto-Finno-Ugric)
Reconstruction ofUralic languages
Regionnear the Ural Mountains, Central Russian Upland or the Sayan Mountains
Era7,000–2,000 BCE
Lower-order reconstructions

Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family. The reconstructed language is thought to have been originally spoken in a small area in about 7000–2000 BCE (estimates vary), and then expanded across northern Eurasia, gradually diverging into a dialect continuum and then a language family in the process. The location of the area or Urheimat is not known, and various strongly differing proposals have been put forward, such as the Central Russian Upland, but the vicinity of the Ural Mountains is generally viewed as the most likely.

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