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A new resource for Finnic languages
The report introduces a new digital resource on minor Finnic languages. This resource is the main outcome of the project “Documentation of Ingrian: collecting and analyzing fieldwork data and digitizing legacy materials” carried out by Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus at the University of Tartu in 2011–2013. The collected materials cover several minor
Fedor Rozhanskiy, Elena Markus
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On etymology of Finnic term for 'sky' [PDF]
Using etymological methods, the present study has identified five Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies. These five etymologies form a rhyme correspondence. This regular sound change validates the etymological connection between Sinitic and Uralic.
Gao, J.
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Future time reference in the Finnic languages: LEE(NE)- verbs
The Finnic languages are often presented as an example of languages that use the present tense for expressing the future. As generalizations about future time reference in the Finnic languages have usually been made on the basis of Finnish and Estonian, this study concentrates on the other Finnic languages/language varieties, mainly on Livonian ...
Norvik, Miina
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Areal relations of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects
The areas of the distribution of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects are described on many lexical maps of the Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum and the Atlas Linguarum Europae.
Vilja Oja
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Clustering Lexical Variation of Finnic Languages Based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum [PDF]
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Honkola, Terhi +3 more
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Dynamics of phonetic and phonological quantity in Ingrian and other Finnic languages of Ingria
The primary focus of this study is on dynamic quantity-related prosodic processes (reduction and lengthening) in the Finnic languages of Ingria, which are situated in the vicinity of St. Petersburg in Russia: Ingrian, Votic, Ingrian Finnish, mixed Siberian Ingrian/Finnish.
KUZNETSOVA, NATALIA
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In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described by the adjectives pitkä, korkea, suuri, iso and tobie, or their dialectal variants. The first three occur through out the whole language group, carrying several meanings and serving to ...
Vilja Oja
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Sound symbolism of expressive verbs in Finnic languages (Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian, Votic)
This article will study language, using the contrastive-descriptive method, as a phonetic imitation of the world around us, and will concentrate on the verb vocabulary, based on sound imitation and natural sound imitation, characteristic of the Finnic ...
Heinike Heinsoo, Eva Saar
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On the Finnic and Samoyedic Genitive and Accusative Plural; pp. 34-40 [PDF]
Samoyedic languages have strong traces about contacts with Finnic languages up to the transition of Samoyeds to the Finnic language form. The supposed onetime accusative singular ending *-m and accusative plural Âending *-j could not produce in Finnic ...
Ago Künnap
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