Budinos is a constructed language designed by to be an international auxiliary language for speakers of Finno-Ugric languages. Budinos builds mainly on Udmurt and Hungarian but also has features from Finnish, Estonian, Mari, and other related languages.
| Budinos | |
|---|---|
| Setting and usage | international auxiliary language for speakers of Finno-Ugric languages |
| Ethnicity | Finno-Ugrians |
| Purpose | Constructed language
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| Sources | Udmurt, Hungarian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qbu (local use) |
| IETF | art-x-budinos (local use) |
Budinos originates in an initiative from ethnofuturists in Udmurtia from the perspective that foreign languages are insufficient to fully communicate the Finno-Ugric world view in full, according to ethnofuturist thinking. The language has been employed in artistic usage both in Udmurtia and in Estonia.[1]
The name 'Budinos' originates in Herodotus' Histories which, according to one of the authors of the language, Yuri Perevoshchikov, describes a pastoral tribe named 'the Budins' by the river Don.[2]