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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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Location of the Uralic proto-language in the Kama River Valley and the Uralic speakers' Expansion east and west with the 'Sejma-Turbino transcultural phenomenon’ 2200-1900 BC [PDF]
Археология евразийских степей, 2022 Volgo-Kama Neolithic resulted from an expansion of the Elshan culture to Lower Kama c. 5700 BCE. Corresponding “Indo-Uralic” linguistic parallels attest to an expansion of pre-Proto-Indo-European speakers to the area of pre-Proto-Uralic speakers.
Asko Parpola
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Cross‐Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract Children's early vocabularies have been observed to be predominated by nouns, particularly concrete and animate nouns. This phenomenon, known as the “noun bias,” is argued to reflect a universal conceptual advantage for concrete objects in early word learning, because such referents are perceived as bounded, individualized concepts that are ...
Yiqun Zhang, Subin Kim, Marisa Casillas
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Foreword to the Special Issue on Uralic Languages
Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 2016 In this introduction we have tried to present concisely the history of language technology for Uralic languages up until today, and a bit of a desiderata from the point of view of why we organised this special issue.
Tommi A Pirinen +5 more
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Identification of Population Affinity Using Dental Traits: A Narrative Review in Forensic Odontology [PDF]
Health Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Background and Aim Forensic odontology utilizes dental morphology to estimate population affinity in medico‐legal cases. This review examines the role of dental traits in human identification, emphasizing their limitations in conclusively estimating ancestry or ethnicity.
Alok Atreya +3 more
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1563, Issue 1, September 2026.We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Lara S. Burchardt +2 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2002 This paper deals with the Uralic languages, their regional distribution and relationship with one another. The Uralic languages are spoken in a large area in North and Central Eurasia.
Pirkko Suihkonen
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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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On locating Proto-Uralic [PDF]
, 2023 In recent years the debate regarding the Proto-Uralic homeland has again intensified. However, not all the relevant arguments have been considered thoroughly. Therefore, in the present article their validity and weight are evaluated.
Häkkinen, Jaakko
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Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. This article is an attempt to extract information about the interactions of dialects of the Indo-European dialect continuum with each other using a comparative analysis of the basic vocabularies of some Indo-European (IE) descendant ...
G. M. Telezhko
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