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ARTICLES RELATED TO Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary |  |  |  | Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary: Encyclopedia II - Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabularyThis is a small sample of cognates in basic vocabulary across Uralic, illustrating the sound laws (based on the Encyclopædia Britannica and Hakkinen 1979). Note that in general two cognates don't have the same meaning; they merely have the same origin. Thus, the English word in each row should be regarded as an approximation of the original meaning, not a translation of the other words.
(Orthographical notes: The hacek (š) denotes postalveolar articulation, while the accent (ś) denotes a secondary palatal articulation. The F ...
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 |  |  | Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary: Encyclopedia II - Finno-Ugric languages - OriginsThe "Urheimat" of Proto-Finno-Ugric, the hypothetical proto-language of the modern Finno-Ugric languages, cannot be located with any certainty. The area which lies in what is now central and northern European Russia (i.e., west of the Ural mountains) is generally assumed as a likely candidate, at a time of maybe the 3rd millennium BC. This is based on the linguistic migration theory, which appears to suggest a "centre of gravity" somewhere around the middle Volga River, and on reconstructed plant and animal names (notably including spruce, S ...
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 |  |  | Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary: Encyclopedia II - Finno-Ugric languages - ClassificationIt is generally agreed that the Finno-Ugric subfamily of the Uralic languages has the following members:
Ugric (Ugrian)
Hungarian
Hungarian
Ob Ugric (Ob Ugrian)
Khanty (Ostyak)
Mansi (Vogul)
Finno-Permic (Permian-Finnic)
Permic (Permian)
Komi (Komi-Zyrian, Zyrian)
Komi-Permyak
Udmurt (Votyak)
Finno-Volgaic (Finno-Cheremisic, Finno-Mar ...
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 |  |  | Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary: Encyclopedia II - Finno-Ugric languages - Structural featuresAll of the Finno-Ugric languages share structural features and basic vocabulary. Around 200 basic words have been proposed and include word stems for concepts related to humans such as names for relatives and body parts. This common vocabulary includes, according to Lyle Campbell, at least 55 words related to fishing, 33 related to hunting and eating animals, 12 related to reindeer, 17 related to plant foods, 31 related to technology, 26 related to building, 11 related to clothing, 18 related to climate, 4 related to society, 11 related to religion, and 3 related to commerce ...
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 |  |  | Finno-Ugric languages - Common vocabulary: Encyclopedia II - Finno-Ugric languages - HistoryThe first mention of a Uralic people is in Tacitus' Germania, mentioning the Finns as adjacent to Germanic territory. In the late 15th century, European scholars noted the resemblance of the names Hungaria and Yugria, the names of settlements east of the Ural. They assumed a connection, but did not look into linguistic evidence. In 1671, Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm commented on the similarities of Lapp, Estonian and Finnish, and also on a few similar words in Finnish and Hungarian, while the German scholar Martin V ...
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