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Finnic language islands in eastern Latvia: Archaeological background and perspective

Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2021
This article discusses the archaeological background of the Leivu and Lutsi Finnic language islands. In contrast to the earlier research tradition, a hidden Finnic presence is suggested by the distribution area of Roman Iron Age tarand graves up to and including the Medieval Period when the presence of a Finnic population in northeastern Latvia (“the ...
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Aspects of Finnic language history

Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja
The article draws together aspects of the history of the Finnic languages. I rely on Finnic language studies to shed light on the main lines of the historical development of the Finnic languages and on the methods implemented in these studies. Comparison of cognate languages on a synchronic level has been a recurrent procedure in the historical studies
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Text Clustering of Icelandic Post-Medieval Þulur

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
This article explores the possibilities of applying Runoregi – a user interface for browsing automatically computed textual similarity, originally designed for studying the Finnic oral tradition – in the research of Icelandic post-medieval þulur. Along
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir, Maciej Janicki   +1 more
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Osobní zájmena ve fino-sámských jazycích v uralské perspektivě

Linguistica Brunensia, 2013
In the article the personal pronouns of all Uralic languages are collected and summarized from the point of view of their declension. Personal pronouns of Balto-Finnic and Saamic languages are collected and analyzed on the basis of their internal ...
Lucie Hofírková, Václav Blažek
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Finnic adjectives for ‘tall’

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012
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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A journey of discovery through the Livonian world: the scholarly work of Tiit-Rein Viitso

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
This article presents a survey of Tiit-Rein Viitso’s studies on Livonian. Viitso has studied a variety of aspects of this southernmost Finnic language.
Tuuli Tuisk, Karl Pajusalu
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Renewal of Finnic demonstrative systems in the Circum-Baltic context

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
The present study examines the diachronic development and renewal of demonstrative systems in the Finnic languages within the Circum-Baltic context.
Chingduang Yurayong
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Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav, 2023
Coventry KR, Gudde HB, Diessel H, Collier J, Guijarro-Fuentes P, Vulchanova M, Vulchanov V, Todisco E, Reile M, Breunesse M, Plado H, Bohnemeyer J, Bsili R, Caldano M, Dekova R, Donelson K, Forker D, Park Y, Pathak LS, Peeters D, Pizzuto G, Serhan B, Apse L, Hesse F, Hoang L, Hoang P, Igari Y, Kapiley K, Haupt-Khutsishvili T, Kolding S, Priiki K, Mačiukaitytė I, Mohite V, Nahkola T, Tsoi SY, Williams S, Yasuda S, Cangelosi A, Duñabeitia JA, Mishra RK, Rocca R, Šķilters J, Wallentin M, Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė E, Incel OD.   +44 more
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Curonian linguistic elements in Livonian

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
Researchers of Finnic languages have stressed the special position of Livonian among its close relatives due to the great number of Latvian loan elements. The Latvian influence is noteworthy and present in all levels of the language.
Lembit Vaba
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Dynamics of phonetic and phonological quantity in Ingrian and other Finnic languages of Ingria

, 2021
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.
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