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Finno-Ugric languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A portion of the Baltic-Finnic lexicon is not shared with the remaining Finno-Ugric languages and may be due to a pre-Finnic substrate, which may coincide in part with the substrate of the Indo-European Baltic languages. According to the interpretation of the geneticists who conducted the study, the ancestors of modern Germanic and Slavic-speaking peoples were in fact largely speakers of Finno-Ugric languages at some earlier time. As far as the Sami (Lappic) languages are concerned, a hypothesis has been advanced that the ancestors of the Sami originally spoke a different language, but adopted their current tongue under the pressure of their Finnic-speaking neighbours. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finno-Ugric_language   (2340 words)

Finno-Volgaic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Finno-Volgaic languages, also known as the Finno-Mari, Finno-Cheremisic, or Volga-Finnic languages, are a language group within the Uralic language family. The Finno-Volgaic languages include three branches and a group of extinct languages of uncertain position. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finno-Volgaic_languages   (91 words)

01794.doc The prehistory of the Volgaic Finno-Ugrians: the archaeological record From the Neolithic to the Iron Age Owing to the relative abundance of archaeological finds the prehistory of the Mari and the Mordvins is fairly well known. He considered the Middle Volga region to have acted as a watershed between the western and eastern Finno-Ugrian branches in the Neolithic; the Bronze Age boundary (that also survived into the Iron Age) between the Kazan and the Pozdniakovo culture being the Vetluga and the Sura. In the Middle Volga region the Balanovo culture merged with the indigenous population to the extent that a new culture, labelled Chirkovo-Sejma was distinguished. mek.oszk.hu /01700/01794/01794.doc   (16073 words)

Finnish language @ BaseballLiving.com Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). 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.baseballliving.com /about/Finnish_language   (5872 words)

Erzya language - Art History Online Reference and Guide The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of Finno-Volgaic languages a sub-branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. Erzya is closely related to the Moksha language, but is distinct in both its phonetics and vocabulary. It is currently written using the Cyrillic alphabet with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Erzya_language   (166 words)

WHITHER URALISTICS The language family tree is a perfect model in depicting that, which it is meant to depict: the break-up of proto-languages into "daughter" languages, whether this be envisioned as a gradual disintegration process or as a rather sudden event brought about by the migration of speakers. Thus the arrival of Uralic languages in Finland is often equated with the arrival of comb ceramics around 4,000 years B.C. (Carpelan 1996: 14, Kallio 1997: 123), and early Indo-Europeans are seen as the bearers of the Sredny Stog culture in Southern Russia around 4,500-3,500 B.C. (Beekes 1995: 50). In short, the "new" conception of the Uralic protolanguage and the language family tree is rooted in misunderstanding the relationships between the object of research, the researcher and the results of research. www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/3093/Uralists_Against_History.htm   (6603 words)

FINLAND: Uralic Languge Family 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. Hungarian is in the extreme south-west, and the Ob-Ugric languages, Vogul and Ostyak, are situated in the extreme north-east. 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)

RESEARCH UNIT FOR VOLGAIC LANGUAGES The research unit is interested in new proposals for cooperation in the study of the languages in the Volga-Kama region. The development of Erzya and Moksha literary languages is investigated on the basis of newspaper texts published 1924-1980. The research unit was established as a temporary project in 1993, and in 2000 it became a permanent institution. www.hum.utu.fi /sgr/VolgYksEngl.htm   (768 words)

LINGUIST List 14.934: Historical Linguistics: Carpelan, et al. (2002) As all Indo-European languages possess inherited vocabulary related to wheeled transport and the PIE daughter languages have not borrowed them from one another after the dispersal, one can assume that PIE speakers knew and used wheeled vehicles. Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-829.html John Hammink, F-Secure Corporation Over the years, there has been much speculation about the early identity and roots of the Uralic languages, and indeed, in recent years there seems to be a renewed interest in the topic. Early Indo-European Loanwords in Uralic languages are also considered, and some existing theories are disputed. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-934.html   (5198 words)

Repertoires of characters Some of Europe's languages (particularly in the Caucasus) still have no tradition of writing and so are not represented in the main body of the report; though other information on them is provided in Annex C for the sake of completeness. Some languages, such as Welsh, treat a string of two characters as a single letter for alphabetizing: thus, for Welsh "a b c ch d...", all words beginning with "ch" follow all words beginning with "cy" and precede words beginning with "da". For some of these languages, the populations speaking them are rather large; some of the languages with standard orthographies have very small numbers of speakers. www.evertype.com /standards/tc304wg2/p11   (2415 words)

Mordvin language: The Mordvinic languages are a subgroup of the Finno-Volgaic languages. The term Mordvin language is mistakenly used for the Erzya language and Moksha language (both are related, but different languages). winelib.com /wiki/Mordvin_language   (43 words)

Usein kysyttyä suomalais-ugrilaisista kielistä The Volgaic and Permian languages have hundreds of thousands of speakers, but most of the fluent speakers are elderly and live in the countryside; many urban and young people tend to give up their language in favour of Russian. This means either that the area of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic) proto-language has been very wide, reaching perhaps from the Baltic Sea to the Urals, or that we must find alternative explanatory models to account for the spreading of these languages. In fact, the lack of grammatical gender (FU languages have only one word for "he" and "she"), the lack of a verb for "have" (Finnish uses structures like "there is a book with me" for "I have a book") or the lack of a grammatically expressed future tense are universally quite frequent phenomena. www.helsinki.fi /~jolaakso/fufaq.html   (3520 words)

Tvärminne Symposium A good summary is provided by Sammallahti (1998: 119–122) in his presentation of the historical background of the Sámi languages: according to him, there are two Finno-Ugrian, two Finno-Permian, one Finno-Volgaic, and three Finno-Sámi sound changes; the actual number is, however, lower, because some of them represent different phases or effects of the same process. Finno-Ugrian languages, in the widest sense of the word, share a few core vocabulary items, though when critically examined, the number of satisfactory etymologies appears smaller than was thought earlier (Janhunen 1981; Sammallahti 1988). Rather, new languages are created so that the transitional dialects between the main dialects of the proto-language disappear through assimilation to the main dialects or other languages, which yields clear-cut units that can no longer profoundly influence each other but continue to change independently. www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/tvarminne.html   (3698 words)

ECTS INFORMATION (Suomalais-ugrilainen kielentutkimus - Finno-Ugric Languages) UTU The scholarly study of Finno-Ugric languages, or Finno-Ugristics, aims at giving a comprehensive view of the family of Finno-Ugric languages and the position of the Finnish language in the family. Hungarian and some other remotely related languages are studied in order to gain practical language skills, but the central focus is on the theory and methodology of linguistics with an emphasis on comparative linguistics. Principles and concepts of language history and historical linguistics particularly from the perspective of Finno-Ugristics. www.hum.utu.fi /sgr/ECTS.htm   (683 words)

Erzya - The HelpFox tells all he knows about Erzya. The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language. - The society for preserving the Erzya language (in Russian) erzya.helpfox.com /?t=Erzya   (181 words)

ABC-Dir: Languages Studying the Finno-Ugric languages of the Volga region (Mordvin, Mari, and Udmurt) as well as the Turkic languages (Chuvash, Tatar... Detailed account by Dr Tariq Rahman on the people and languages of the IV civilisation, and their relationships to modern... The Critical Languages Program at The University of Arizona was created in order to meet the need for instruction in... www.abc-directory.com /view/languages   (304 words)

MSN Encarta - List of Items - Finnic , subfamily of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and northwestern Asia. MSN Encarta - List of Items - Finnic encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210037941_1.1/Cheremis_language.html   (25 words)

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