The Finnic branch is a subgroup of the larger Uralic language family, which includes languages spoken primarily in northern Europe and parts of Siberia. This branch consists mainly of languages such as Finnish, Estonian, and Karelian. These languages share common linguistic features and have evolved from a common ancestral language. Finnic languages are characterized by their agglutinative structure, meaning they often form words by stringing together various prefixes and suffixes. They also exhibit vowel harmony, where vowels within a word harmonize to be either front or back vowels. This unique linguistic structure sets the Finnic branch apart from many other European languages.