Editing Finno-Ugric languages (section)

==Status==
The validity of Finno-Ugric as a phylogenic grouping is currently disputed,<ref>[http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/kuzn.html Salminen, Tapani (2002): ''Problems in the taxonomy of the Uralic languages in the light of modern comparative studies''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113123959/http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/kuzn.html |date=13 January 2019 }}; the clade has also been abandoned by ''[[Ethnologue]]''.</ref><ref name=Aikio2019>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Aikio |first1=Ante |author-link=Ante Aikio |title=Chapter 1: Proto-Uralic |editor1-last=Bakró-Nagy |editor1-first=Marianne |editor2-last=Laakso |editor2-first=Johanna |editor3-last=Skribnik |editor3-first=Elena |encyclopedia=The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages |date=2019 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford, UK |url=https://www.academia.edu/40193033 |pages=3ff. |isbn=9780198767664 |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=10 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210230034/https://www.academia.edu/40193033 |url-status=live }}</ref> with some linguists maintaining that the [[Finno-Permic languages]] are as distinct from the [[Ugric languages]] as they are from the [[Samoyedic languages]] spoken in Siberia, or even that none of the Finno-Ugric, Finno-Permic, or Ugric branches has been established. Received opinion is that the easternmost (and last discovered) Samoyed had separated first and the branching into Ugric and Finno-Permic took place later, but this reconstruction does not have strong support in the linguistic data.<ref name=Aikio2019 />