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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)

open access: green, 2014
This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies in the slower rate of change of these languages.
Iwona Piechnik
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

The Finnic Peoples of Russia: Genetic Structure Inferred from Genome-Wide and Y-Chromosome Data. [PDF]

open access: yesGenes (Basel)
Background: Eastern Finnic populations, including Karelians, Veps, Votes, Ingrians, and Ingrian Finns, are a significant component of the history of Finnic populations, which have developed over ~3 kya.
Agdzhoyan A   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Lembit Vaba, Über eine mögliche baltische Herkunft von frühosfi. *lēćća *’Blasebalg’ [On the Possible Baltic Origin of the Early Proto-Finnic *lēćća ­*’bellows’]; pp. 161-167 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2016
There is still no consensus about the origin of the Finnic word family represented by, e.g. Fin lietsa, Est lõõts etc. The alleged Germanic etymology ~ ­Proto-Germ *blēstra-z (cf. Old Norse blástr m ’Blasen, Schwellung’ etc).
Lembit Vaba
doaj   +2 more sources

Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2016
In this paper we examine transitivity pairs in the two modern Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and compare them to neighbouring Finnic (Finnish, Estonian) and Slavic (Russian, Polish) languages.
Nicole Nau, Jurgis Pakerys
openalex   +2 more sources

The distribution of village names based on pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the northern Baltic Sea area

open access: diamond, 2020
The article studies pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and their spread in the northern Baltic Sea area at the end of Middle Ages (c. AD 1520). This is done by analysing village names based on pre-Christian Finnic personal name elements.
Jaakko Raunamaa
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