Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2018 Background The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their ...
Kristiina Tambets +35 more
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THE INTENSIVE CONTROVERSY ON CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY: REFUTATION OF THE LIQUID MEDIAL FOR DIVISION-2 IN OLD CHINESE [PDF]
Trames, 2021 The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive controversy by the Sino-linguistsâ side and the descriptivistsâ side, the ...
Jingyi Gao
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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On etymology of Sinitic, Indo-European and Uralic terms for 'star' supported by regular sound correspondences [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has researched four Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma) and two Sinitic and Uralic shared (Sino-Uralic) etyma. Two of the Sino-Germanic etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Identification of the Etymon of Indo-European 'Moist', Sinitic 'South', Tibeto-Burman 'Sun, Day, Sky' and Hungarian nap 'Sun, Day' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified two Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma):【南, 陰】. These two etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Sino-Uralic etymology for 'Jupiter, year' supported by rhyme correspondence [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified seven Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies (etyma). Three of them form a rhyme correspondence. Two of them form an onset correspondence. Four of them form another rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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On the Evidence of the Verbal 3rd Person Suffix *-sV in Uralic [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 In the olden times the Uralic languages involved in parallel both personal pronouns and personal suffixes. The clarification of the reasons for phonetic similarities of the consonant matter in personal pronouns and personal suffixes is not quite possible
Ago Künnap
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Čislitel'nye v ugorskich jazykach [Numerals in the Ugric Languages] [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Hungarian, Vogul and Ostyak have inherited the majority of their elementary, i. e. uncompounded numerals and other number words not derivated by suffixation from the Uralic, Finno-Ugric and the Ugric protolanguages.
László Honti
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Sino-Uralic etymology for 'moon, month' supported by regular sound correspondences [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has researched four Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies (etyma). Two of them form a rhyme correspondence. Three of them form an onset correspondence.
Gao, J., Tender, T.
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’Sister’, ’Daughter’ and ’Brother’ — Etymological Discussion of a Few Borrowed Uralic Kinship Terms [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 In this article, three Indo-European loan etymologies for Uralic kinship terms meaning âsisterâ, âdaughterâ and âbrotherâ are discussed and a thorough etymological analysis of the words is given based on the latest research.
Niklas Metsäranta
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