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Which Uralic language has the largest number of speakers?

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distribution of the Uralic languages — Uralic languages Distribution of the Uralic languages.

The Uralic language family consists of more than 20 related languages, with Hungarian being the most demographically important and having the largest number of speakers.1

As the official language of Hungary, Hungarian is a member of the Finno-Ugric language group. While other Uralic languages such as Finnish and Estonian are also spoken by millions, Hungarian maintains the highest number of speakers within the family.21