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Which languages belong to the Ob-Ugric group?

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

The Ob-Ugric group consists of two languages: the Mansi language (formerly known as Vogul) and the Khanty language (formerly known as Ostyak).1

These languages belong to the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric languages, a major division of the Uralic language family, and are most closely related to Hungarian. They are primarily spoken in the region of the Ob and Irtysh rivers in central Russia.12