Uralo-Siberian languages - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Uralo-siberian Languages: Encyclopedia - Uralo-siberian Languages
Uralo-Siberian is a hypothetical language family consisting of the following language families: Uralic Yukaghir Chukotko-Kamchatkan Eski...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uralo-siberian Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Uralo-siberian Languages - Evidence
Uralo-Siberian languages - Phonology. The consonant inventories of the reconstructed protolanguages of the four Uralo-Siberian families...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eurasiatic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Eurasiatic Languages - The Branches Of Eurasiatic
As laid out by Greenberg (2000:279-81), the branches of Eurasiatic are: Etruscan Indo-European Uralic-Yukaghir Altaic Korean-Japanese-Ai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finno-ugric Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Finno-ugric Languages - Origins
The "Urheimat" of Proto-Finno-Ugric, the hypothetical proto-language of the modern Finno-Ugric languages, cannot be located with any cert...   » Read the article

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 - Eurasiatic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Eurasiatic Languages - Prospects For The Eurasiatic Hypothesis
The principal objection to theories like Greenberg's is that contact between populations often results in exchange of words, so similarit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finno-ugric Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Finno-ugric Languages - Common Vocabulary
This is a small sample of cognates in basic vocabulary across Uralic, illustrating the sound laws (based on the Encyclopædia Britannica ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finno-ugric Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Finno-ugric Languages - History
The first mention of a Uralic people is in Tacitus' Germania, mentioning the Finns as adjacent to Germanic territory. In the late 15th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finno-ugric Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Finno-ugric Languages - Structural Features
All of the Finno-Ugric languages share structural features and basic vocabulary. Around 200 basic words have been proposed and include wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finno-ugric Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Finno-ugric Languages - Classification
It is generally agreed that the Finno-Ugric subfamily of the Uralic languages has the following members: Ugric (Ugrian) Hungarian Hunga...   » Read the article