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Finnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic-Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i.e., the Balto-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages or, alternatively, a larger subgroup that also includes the Sami languages. In modern Finnish and Estonian usage, the term 'Finnic' may also refer to what are perceived as culturally related ethnic groups, i.e., the settled peoples speaking Balto-Finnic languages, traditionally living in Karelia, Ingria, Estonia, Finland, northernmost Norway and northern Sweden, and their farmer-hunter culture. According to earlier established theories, agricultural Finnic peoples were believed to have inhabited parts of what are now the Baltic countries before the first millennium. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnic   (508 words)

Finnic Languages The Finnic languages (also called Baltic Finnic, Balto-Finnic) belong to the Uralic family of languages and are spoken on and around the North-Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp /~kmatsum/texts/finnic/index.html   (28 words)

CONK! Encyclopedia: Finnish_(language) Finnish (suomi [â—¶]) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway. The spoken language, on the other hand, is the main variety of Finnish to be used in popular TV and radio shows, at workplaces and it is sometimes preferred to speaking a dialect in personal communication. www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Finnish_(language)   (5305 words)

Baltic Sea - Unipedia The Baltic Sea is known by the equivalents of "East Sea", "West Sea", or "Baltic Sea" in different languages: Finland and the Baltic states were the last in Europe to be converted into Christianity in the Northern Crusades: the former in the 12th century by the Swedes and the latter in the 13th century by the Germans. The flow of the rivers into the Baltic is quite high, however, and as a result the salinity of water in the Baltic Sea is somewhere between freshwater and seawater, known as brackish water. www.unipedia.info /Baltic_Sea.html   (1954 words)

Talk:Hebrew languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Compare other language continua such as Baltic-Finnic languages, where each transitional dialect has a name and is called a language, but has very few difficult differences from their neighbors. The Hebrew language might be appropriately called the Israelitish dialect of Canaanitish, a branch of the Semitic Languages spoken in Palestine and in the Phenician colonies. The related languages might be partially covered by discussion and partially be links, links not oly to discussion of the language found in old inscriptions (such a Moabite, Ammonite, and Philistine inscriptions) but also to partially Hebrew languages like Yiddish. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Hebrew_languages   (8760 words)

Sami.html The Sami languages (there are several of them) are Finno-Ugric languages and the closest relatives to the Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian). The numbers in brackets represent the approximate number of speakers of the language according to the Geographical distribution of the Uralic languages made by the Finno-Ugric Society in 1993. Sami language and culture courses are taught at several universities in the Nordic countries. www.renne.com /dmaternal/Sami.html   (3495 words)

FINLAND: Uralic Languge Family Finnic is divided into the Baltic-Finnic, Volga-Finnic, and Permian languages; Ugric comprises Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages. Today the western Uralic and eastern Altaic languages, extend from Scandinavia, Hungary, and the Balkans in the south-west, to the easternmost reaches of the Amur and the island of Sakhalin, and from the Arctic Ocean to central Asia. All these languages are worth saving, but some may be beyond hope, and we should concentrate on saving the most saveable first, while not forgetting the others. peacecountry0.tripod.com /langclas.htm   (1601 words)

Articles - Baltic-Finnic languages Major languages in the part of Europe surrounding the area of the Baltic-Finnic languages, are from the Baltic, Slavic or Germanic subgroups of the Indo-European family. Baltic-Finnic languages are closest related to the Sami languages, and rather distinct from the rest of Finno-Ugric languages, but form a tighter group together. Thus the Baltic-Finnic languages are, unlike most languages spoken in Europe, not part of the Indo-European language family. www.izeez.com /articles/Baltic-Finnic_languages   (407 words)

UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page The Baltic Finnic languages are mutually intelligible, and some experts consider them to be dialects of the same language. The standard written form of the language began to develop around 1850, at which time the orthography was reformed, and spelling conventions came to be based more closely on native (rather than foreign) pronunciation of Estonian. The language endured another period of Russification from 1940 until independence in 1990 when Estonian was made the national language. www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=28   (1153 words)

John Benjamins: Book set details for Circum-Baltic Languages [SLCS 54-55] Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective. www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_54_55   (212 words)

LINGUIST List 13.1993: Typology/Lang Description: Circum Baltic Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages -- S. Christen A continuum from multiple usage of attributive genitive structures in Lithuanian and a more restrictive Latvian to a limit of two in the Finnic languages is presented. Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic Languages (part numbering is continued from Volume 1) Impersonals and passives -- Holvoet The impact of West Finnic along the Lithuanian and Latvian contact zones is detailed on the basis of nominative in various forms. On the Development of the nominative object in East Baltic -- V. Ambrazas The impact of West Finnic along the Lithuanian and Latvian contact zones is detailed on the basis of nominative in various forms. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/13/13-1993.html   (1038 words)

Smaller Baltic-Finnic groups (from Uralic languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Baltic languages are more closely related to Slavic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian (in that order) than to the other branches of the family. The five less-numerous Baltic-Finnic groups—Karelian, Veps, Ingrian, Votic, and Livonian—lie within Russia and the Baltic nations, largely in the general vicinity of the Gulf of Finland. The Baltic Sea is an arm of the North Sea, and it is Russia's chief outlet to the Atlantic Ocean and the only outlet for Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. www.britannica.com /eb/article-74937   (884 words)

Noaydde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is probable that the word has come down to both Sami and Baltic-Finnic languages from the ancient Proto-Finno-Ugric language, as there is a cognate word also in the distant Finno-Ugric language Mansi. The Evenks refer to their traditional healing figure as saman, meaning "wise". However, noayddes has only been traced in the Sami culture and not Finnish. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noaydde   (265 words)

RECONNECTING FINNIC The symposium "Reconnecting Finnic" invites all researchers of the Finnic languages as well as all linguists interested in Finno-Ugric and Circum-Baltic languages, to discuss the various perspectives of Finnic studies and the possible contribution of Finnic studies to general linguistics - or vice versa. A hundred years ago, in the "golden age" of comparative historical Finno-Ugristics, knowledge of the minor Finnic languages was an essential part of Finnish or Estonian philology and closely linked to the most central fields of contemporary linguistic studies. This symposium seeks to reestablish the connections between the study of the minor Finnic languages and the most vigorously developing approaches and subfields of modern linguistics. www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/proj/recfin   (321 words)

Finnic languages The Finnic languages (sometimes called "Baltic Finnic" but not related to the Indo-European Baltic languages: Latvian and Lithuanian), a subgroup of the Finno-Ugrian language family, include Finnish and its closest relatives: Ingrian (or Izhorian, the language of the Orthodox natives of Ingria [the vicinity of St. Petersburg]; not to be confused with the dialects of Finnish spoken by Lutheran Finns in Ingria since the 17th century) The Karelian language should not be confused with the so-called "Karelian dialects" of Finnish, i.e. www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/ims_engl.html   (287 words)

UKmenu At the end of the Advanced studies the students will have a good knowledge of the structure and history of these languages, which will enable them to do research and to work as specialists in matters relating to Baltic-Finnic peoples and languages. Within these units students can choose the study of Finnish as a second or foreign language as their specialization, to prepare them to teach Finnish for speakers of other languages and to do research in the area. In seminars and practical courses the language of media, literature, advertizing, and colloquial speech are discussed, as well as the questions of dialectal change, stylistic variation and linguistic norms. www.jyu.fi /fennicum/ukmenu.htm   (1355 words)

The Circum-Baltic Languages: Their Typology and Contacts General surveys are also given of the Baltic and Finnic languages, of the Swedish dialects in the Baltic sea area and of the Russian varieties in the Baltic states. Prospectus: In the Baltic Sea area, there are representatives of three major branches of Indo-European: Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic; in addition, there are Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and also a couple of languages from other language families. The book will be of interest to linguists and students of linguistics in general, but in particular to those interested in language typology, areal phenomena, language contacts, grammaticalization and language change, non-standard varieties, and in the individual languages and language families around the Baltic Sea. www.ling.su.se /staff/tamm/CB-book.html   (227 words)

Baltic WorkForce - Baltic WorkForce Baltic WorkForce is a force to be reckoned with...... Baltic WorkForce is working with “the four big...... Baltic WorkForce is working with the best lawyer...... www.balticworkforce.com   (82 words)

Minority Languages and Endangered Languages - MavicaNET Endangered languages of Europe and Northeast Asia; updated demographic data for Finno-Ugric languages. A list of placename tables for minority and native languages, arranged by minorities and states. Minority languages of Russia on the Net - English, Russian www.mavicanet.com /directory/hrv/1114.html   (287 words)

LINGUIST List 13.1196: Finnic Langs, University of Helsinki The aim of the symposium is to discuss the state-of-art in Finnic studies, the perspectives of especially the minor, endangered Finnic languages (Karelian, Ludian, Vepsian, Ingrian, Votian, Livonian), and their possible contribution to general linguistic studies or vice versa. Post-graduate or advanced undergraduate students in particular, working on themes that are or can be connected with the Finnic languages from a larger (e.g. The Finnic research project (originally) located at the Dept. of Finno-Ugrian Studies of the University of Helsinki (http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/sugl/proj/finnic.html) will organise an international symposium, "RECONNECTING FINNIC", in Helsinki, November 15-16, 2002. www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/13/13-1196.html   (214 words)

The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) The LSJ Symposium on Endangered Languages, October 1998 International Expert Meeting on UNESCO Programme: Safeguarding of the Endangered Languages, UNESCO PARIS, 10-12 March 2003 www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp /ichel/ichel.html   (54 words)

Uralic and Basque Languages - What's Been Published Uralic and Basque Languages - What's Been Published Basque language Study and teaching (Elementary) Spain Paâis Vasco. Basque language Provincialisms Spain Baztâan Valley Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. www.pitbossannie.com /rp-ph-b.html   (34 words)

The Department of English Eugene Holman's research topics focus on morphology, particularly with data from Finnish and its allied Baltic-Finnic languages. With Artem Davidjants, formerly of Tallinn Pedagogical University, he is the co-founder of Pangloss, an Estonian company specializing in audiovisual and other educational products to faciliate the integration of the Russian-speaking population into Baltic societies. He has worked on word order, historical typology, morphology, and the computer modelling of morphological systems. www.eng.helsinki.fi /main/staff/holman_e.shtml   (286 words)

Struminski (1996) Linguistic interrelations in early Rus': Northmen, Finns, and East Slavs (ninth to eleventh centuries) Russian language -- To 1300 -- Foreign elements; Languages in contact -- History; Old Norse language -- Influence on Russian; Baltic-Finnic languages -- Influence on Russian www.getcited.org /pub/103380729   (65 words)

Amazon.ca: Books: Systems in Contact, Systems in Motion: The Assimilation of Russian Verbs in the Baltic Finnic Languages of Russia (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia 30) Amazon.ca: Books: Systems in Contact, Systems in Motion: The Assimilation of Russian Verbs in the Baltic Finnic Languages of Russia (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia 30) Top of Page : Systems in Contact, Systems in Motion: The Assimilation of Russian Verbs in the Baltic Finnic Languages of Russia (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia 30) Systems in Contact, Systems in Motion: The Assimilation of Russian Verbs in the Baltic Finnic Languages of Russia (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia 30) www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/9155444040/medfools01-20   (158 words)

Loikala (1990) Verner's law and Baltic-Finnic consonant gradation Baltic-Finnic languages; Germanic languages; Consonants; Gradation; Phonology, Historical; Phonology, Comparative; Germanic; Baltic-Finnic www.getcited.org /pub/103143926   (38 words)

RECONNECTING FINNIC "Baltic Finnic") languages are a subgroup of Uralic, genetically closely related but taxonomically problematic, due to diverse contacts and contact-induced developments. Beside Finnish and Estonian, the minor Finnic languages (Karelian, Ludian, Vepsian, Ingrian, Votian, Livonian), all endangered minority languages and some almost extinct, have received less attention and mainly served as providers for historical background information in the search of the roots of Finnish or Estonian. A hundred years ago, in the "golden age" of comparative historical Finno-Ugristics, knowledge of the minor Finnic languages was an essential part of Finnish or Estonian philology and closely linked to the most central fields of contemporary linguistic studies. www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/proj/recfin   (38 words)

Program History Baltic Language Courses: LITH 101-103 Elementary Lithuanian; SCAND 490 Topics in Baltic Languages (Estonian and Latvian) Baltic Language Courses: LITH 101-103 Elementary Lithuanian; SCAND 490 Topics in Baltic Languages (Estonian and Latvian); Baltic Language Courses: SCAND 490 Topics in Baltic Languages (Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian) depts.washington.edu /baltic/history.html   (38 words)

From June Pelo's article collection In Finnish, the impact of these cultures is evident in a substantial stratum of Baltic and Germanic loanwords; the latter, in particular, exist in a number of different strata in Finnish and its closest related languages (the Baltic-Finnic languages), as well as in Saami. This culture is held to represent the northern Indo-European populations, whose languages were early versions of present-day Baltic and Germanic languages. The oldest Baltic and Germanic loanwords are so old that their sources had not yet diverged considerably from Proto-Indo-European; we should remember that the break-up of Proto-Indo-European is surmised to have happened only 1,000 years before the appearance of the ‘hammer-axe’ culture. sfhs.eget.net /P_articles/Pelo82.html   (38 words)

LINGUIST List 13.1993: Typology/Lang Description: Circum Baltic Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic Languages (part numbering is continued from Volume 1) Impersonals and passives -- Holvoet The impact of West Finnic along the Lithuanian and Latvian contact zones is detailed on the basis of nominative in various forms. Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages -- S. Christen A continuum from multiple usage of attributive genitive structures in Lithuanian and a more restrictive Latvian to a limit of two in the Finnic languages is presented. Typological perspectives "A piece of the cake" and "a cup of tea": Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages -- M.Kaptjevskaja-Tamm Quantifiers and related 'partitive' phrases are used to figuratively and graphically map the relationships between languages and their families in the region and its surrounds. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/13/13-1993.html   (38 words)

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