ABSTRACT
The best known Uralic languages are Hungarian, with some fourteen million speakers, Finnish with some five million, and Estonian with about one and a half million. All of the other Uralic languages are spoken in the Soviet Union. All of the Uralic languages have a set of spatial cases which convey such meanings as 'in', 'from', and 'to'. Each Uralic language has a constellation of typological features of the kind discussed which is unique unto itself and which lends it its own particular profile. One task of the specialist is to peel off the layers of each Uralic language and to find correspondences among subsets of related languages. Proto-Uralic probably had a nominative, an accusative, a genitive, at least three local cases, adverbial cases, aspect in the verb, an imperative and possibly an impersonal form of the verb.
