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In recent times, linguists often place the Urheimat, ( German: original homeland ), of the Proto-Uralic language in the vicinity of the Volga River, west of the Urals, close to the Urheimat of the Indo-European languages, or to the east and southeast of the Urals.

Gy.

Laszlo places its origin in the forest zone between the Oka River and central Poland.

E. N.

Setälä and M. Zsirai place it between the Volga and Kama Rivers.

According to E. Itkonen, the ancestral area extended to the Baltic Sea.

P. Hajdu has suggested a homeland in western and northwestern Siberia.