The basic vocabulary shares several hundred word roots with other Uralic languages like Finnish, Estonian, Mansi and Khanty. Examples are the verb "live" (Finnish ), the numbers (2), (3), (4) (cf. Mansi , , , Finnish , Estonian ), as well as 'water', 'hand', 'blood', 'head' (cf. Finnish and Estonian , Finnish , Estonian or ).
The basic vocabulary shares several hundred word roots with other Uralic languages like Finnish, Estonian, Mansi and Khanty. Examples are the verb "live" (Finnish ), th,e num,bers (2), (3), (4) (cf. Mansi , , , Finnish , Estonian ), as well as 'water', 'hand', 'blood', 'head' (cf. Finnish and Estonian , Finnish , Estonian or ).