Substrate Toponymy of the Arkhangelsk Pomorye (Materials for an Etymological Dictionary) [PDF]
The paper presents an excerpt from the upcoming etymological dictionary of substrate toponyms of Finno-Ugric origin attested in the territory of the Arkhangelsk Pomorye, a large region of northern Russia close to the White Sea coast within the modern ...
Nadezhda V. Kabinina
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From a restricted to full linguistic space: an ‘affirmative action’ strategy for the Udmurt language [PDF]
This study analyzes the long-term reasons why Udmurt occupies a restricted linguistic space in the post-Soviet state – the low status of Udmurt, due to Soviet language and other policies; urbanization; population shifts; myths and stereotypes about ...
Williams, Christopher
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THE BEAR AND THE YEAR : ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FINNISH LATE IRON AGE FOLK CALENDAR AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE BEAR CULT [PDF]
The role of the bear as a calendric deity among the Finnic and Finno-Ugric peoples echoes it general importance in all aspects of the northern cultures.
Ridderstad, Marianna P.
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Northern Mansi possessive suffixes in non-possessive function
Research on possessive suffixes in Ob-Ugric languages, as in most Uralic languages, has primarily viewed them in the light of their terminological denomination – i.e., as markers of possessive relations, traditionally referred to as their prototypic use.
Gwen Eva Janda
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Automatic creation of bilingual dictionaries for Finno-Ugric languages [PDF]
We introduce an ongoing project whose objective is to provide linguistically based support for several small Finno-Ugric digital communities in generating online content. To achieve our goals, we collect parallel, comparable and monolingual text material
Benyeda, Ivett Zsuzsanna +3 more
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The Finno-Ugric Languages and The Internet Project
This paper describes a Kone Foundation funded project called "The Finno-Ugric Languages and The Internet" together with some of the achieved results. The main activity of the project is to crawl the internet and gather texts written in small Uralic languages.
Jauhiainen, Heidi +2 more
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On the background to Karin Mark’s monograph "Finno-Ugric Peoples Physical Anthropology" (2014) [PDF]
This article describes how Karin Mark’s (1922–1999) monograph Physical Anthropology of Finno-Ugric Peoples, a bulky and beautifully designed book, (Tallinn: Academy of Sciences Press and Institute of History, Tallinn University, 2014, 542 pp.), reached ...
Kasmel, Jaan, Kasmel, Tiiu
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Introduction. In the languages of different systems, there are many cases when the morphemic structure of a word is not clear. As a result of a comparative analysis of a word with etymologically related words and their reconstructed stems and meanings ...
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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Mezhdunarodnaja nautshnaja konferentsija ”Aktual'nye voprosy vostotshnych finno-ugorskich jazykov” [The Conference ”Eastern Finno-Ugric Languages”] [PDF]
The Conference âEastern Finno-Ugric Languagesâ
A. M. Charitonova
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Sajnovics’s Demonstratio and Gyarmathi’s Affinitas : Terminology and methodology [PDF]
János Sajnovics and Sámuel Gyarmathi are usually appreciated as the first scholars to have proven the relatedness of the Finno-Ugric languages. This paper argues that the significance of Demonstratio and Affinitas lies not so much in their ...
Vladár, Zsuzsa
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