http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Uralic
Indo-Uralic is a proposed language family consisting of Indo-European and
Uralic.
A genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic was first proposed by
the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336) but was
received with little enthusiasm. Since then, the predominant opinion in the
linguistic community has remained that the evidence for such a relationship is
insufficient. However, quite a few prominent linguists have always taken the
contrary view (e.g. Henry Sweet, Holger Pedersen, Björn Collinder, Warren
Cowgill, Jochem Schindler, Eugene Helimski and Gert Klingenschmitt).
There are two distinct questions here (cf. Greenberg 2005:325):
Are Indo-European and Uralic genetically related?
If so, do Indo-European and Uralic constitute a valid genetic node? The
Eurasiatic and Nostratic hypotheses both consider Indo-European and Uralic (or
UralicYukaghir) to be genetically related. However, the Indo-Uralic hypothesis
in the strict sense is distinct from this: it maintains that Indo-European and
Uralic have an especially close genetic relationship, and does not necessarily
include assertions that Indo-European and Uralic are related to any other
language families.
