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Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Despite remarkable progress in digital linguistics, extensive databases of geographical language distributions are missing. This hampers both studies on language spatiality and public outreach of language diversity. We present best practices for creating
Timo Rantanen +4 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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Language Reconstruction – Applied to the Uralic Languages
Migracijske i etničke teme, 1999 After pointing out the shortcomings and methodological weakness of the general theory of linguistic reconstruction, the author disputes the alleged antiquity of Uralic.
Paolo Agostini
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Participial systems in Uralic languages: an overview
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This paper is an intragenetic typological study of participial systems in Uralic languages, a family demonstrating a significant degree of variation in this domain. The classification of participial forms is based primarily on two parameters, participial
Ksenia Shagal
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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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On the Uralic (*)m-Accusative [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 A language universal supposed by L. Palmaitis is worded as follows: "In those systems where the special form of accusative is attested, the category of gender does exist." A. P.
Ago Künnap
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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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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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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 In our introduction to the volume, we address the history and current developments in Uralic studies, with particular attention to the evolution of grammar-writing since the very first Uralic grammars until today, and summarize some of the most ...
Gerson Klumpp +2 more
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A Bantu Ghost in Uralistics? [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Swahili is not to be taken as evidence for an original Uralic lingua franca in this guilt-by-association way, simply because it does not originate in any pidgin or creole language. Arabic can be said to play the same role in the development of Swahili as
André Hesselbäck
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