DNA study traces Finnish and Hungarian language roots to Siberia

The origins of the Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian languages lie thousands of kilometres east of what scholars once believed, according to new research published in Nature.

The study, based on DNA extracted from ancient human remains, shifts the ancestral home of Uralic languages from western Russia to Central Siberia. Researchers linked this migration to a Bronze Age cultural movement known as the Seima-Turbino phenomenon, which extended across northern Eurasia.