Proto-Uralic - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Ural-altaic Languages: Encyclopedia - Ural-altaic Languages
The Ural-Altaic language family was a grouping of languages which was once widely accepted by linguists, but has since been generally rej...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages
The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. The name of the language fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of English Words Of Finnish Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of English Words Of Finnish Origin - Words Loaned To English
Finnish has loaned a bare handful of words to the English language specifically. The best known example is Sauna, and many would argue th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Lexicon
Finnish extensively employs regular agglutination. It has a smaller core vocabulary than, for example, English, and uses derivative suffi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Classification Of Languages
The traditional classification of the Uralic languages is as follows. Obsolete names are displayed in italics. Samoyedic Northern Samoye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dual Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Dual Grammatical Number - Dual Form In Indo-european Languages
From comparisons of existing and recorded languages, linguists have concluded that the Proto-Indo-European language had dual forms. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Orthography
The Finnish orthography is morphemic, and the morphemic notation is built upon the phonetic principle: with just a few subtle exceptions,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Selected Cognates
The following is a very brief selection of cognates in basic vocabulary across the Uralic family, which may serve to give an idea of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Bibliography
Finnish language - English books. Finnish for Foreigners 1 (Maija-Hellikki Aaltio: ISBN 951-1-08145-4) This is the first of 2 volume...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralic Languages - Family Tree
While the internal structure of the Uralic family has been under debate since the family was originally proposed, two subfamilies, Finno-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Phonology
Characteristic features of Finnish (common to other Finno-Ugric languages) are vowel harmony and an agglutinative morphology; due to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dual Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Dual Grammatical Number - Use In Modern Languages
Among living languages, modern standard Arabic has a mandatory dual number, marked on nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns. (First-perso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dual Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Dual Grammatical Number - Comparative Characteristics
In some languages, in addition to the singular and plural forms there is also a dual form, which is used when exactly two people or thing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - History
It is believed that the Baltic Finnic languages evolved from a proto-Finnic language, from which Sami was separated around 1500-1000 BCE....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Classification
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). Finnish is a synthetic langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Formal And Informal Finnish
The Finnish linguistic situation is to some extent comparable to that of much of the Arabic speaking world, where Classical Arabic is use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Dialects
The Finnish dialects are divided into two distinct groups, the Western dialects and the Eastern dialects. [2] The dialects are entirely m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language - Grammar
The morphosyntactic alignment is nominative-accusative; but, there are two object cases: accusative and partitive. The contrast between t...   » Read the article