The Uralic Languages

The Uralic Languages, edited by Daniel Abondolo and published by Routledge in 1998 as part of the Routledge Language Family Descriptions series, is an edited scholarly volume with chapters by specialists in each Uralic language, from Hungarian and Finnish to smaller Samoyedic and Ob-Ugric languages, several of them severely endangered and documented by few other reference works of this scope. Its strength is that specialist authorship per chapter and the series' standing as the reference format for language family surveys. Its limit is linguistic rather than religious in focus, so while the volume documents vocabulary and structure relevant to Uralic mythology and shamanic terminology, a claim about the religious content itself needs a source in comparative Uralic religion or folklore rather than this grammar-focused reference.