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 | | First: for languages closely related (or dialects of the same language, or a pidgin and its lexifier language), it is so easy to borrow not only words but affixes, structures and other features that a massive influx of borrowings can almost or completely cover some original features. |
 | | At the same time, however, it is rarely suggested that a language family (or what to be a language family) could come about simply as a result of convergence processes operating among spatially adjacent languages without their sharing a common descent. |
 | | Proceeding from the supposed course of affairs, Ob-Ugric languages were finally formed only in West Siberia in the manner suggested by Wiik: the Samoyeds’ ancestors (or part of them) who so far had spoken a Paleosiberian language form, learned the Finno-Ugric language form, spoken then by the ancestors of the Mansis and Khanties. |
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