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Uralic languages are clearly distantly related with Eurasian:

Minun nimeni on Adam
my name is Adam

The language family spread together with PIE either via Corded Ware or the Seima Turbino complex (or both):
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1

Pronouns

Uralic cognate english note
minรค meinโ€ฆ I
sinรค thyn/Dein you Turk sen Seine Hoheit
hรคn he he or she Turk onu on (man)
me mir we
te thee you
he 'hem they

Numbers partly ok with leading kโ‡จcโ‡จs sound shift

NR names cognates
1 รผk, ej ek ein
2 kekta second
3 kolmi ๐“๐“‚ธ๐“ ฯขomte (?)
4 nilji ๐“ˆ– see naalu โ€ฆ
5 witti โ‹phรผti ๐“‚ง๐“‡‹๐“ ฯ‡iti
6 kotti โ‹secti
7 sejptรค sept:seven
8 kakta octo/acht:eight
9 oktem'es 8+1
10 das/tiz diz=10

*source: Vladimir Skalitcka

all but two numbers align nicely with European languages.
'5' is more closely related to Slavic languages where penta is reduced to n-less petaโ‹phiti.
Interestingly '4' shows a similar abnormality as Dravidian.

Negation: nem, ei, ะฐ, ะฐะฑัƒ, at

vocabulary sample:

because koska  
because sest  cโ€™est  
because sillรค sendรคh sentรคn ลพentรคh ลพentรคn si  
dull: tylppรค  Tรถlpel!  
dumb tompa  
rotten korhadt: corroded  
rotten mรคda: 	Madig ^^  

Erzya notable for some clean cognates:
๐“‹ด ๐“ˆ– ๐“ƒ€ ๐“œ ลกumbra ัˆัƒะผะฑั€ะฐ somber sane healthy

๐“Žผ ๐“„ฟ ๐“ƒ€ ๐“ ๐“†ฐ ะบะพั€ kor phyto โ€ฆ ๐“Žผ ๐“„ฟ ๐“ƒ€ ๐“ ๐“†ฐ GeBlรคtt แƒคแƒแƒ—แƒแƒšแƒ˜ potoli ฯ€ฮญฯ„ฮฑฮปฮฟฮฝ pรฉtalon petals เคชเคคเฅเคคเคพ pattฤ เคชเคคเฅเคคเฅ€ pattฤซ

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