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Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Altaic, Uraltaic, or Turanic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages.
The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family. The Uralic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from Dalarna County in Sweden to Dudinka, Taimyr, Russia. There are currently approximately 50 ...
Indo-Uralic is a highly controversial linguistic hypothesis proposing a genealogical family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic. [2]The suggestion of a genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic is often credited to the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336), though an even earlier version was proposed by Finnish linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853 and 1863. [3]
Some Uralic languages have a very elaborate mood system, for instance, Nenets has 16 moods. evidentiality: verbs in some Uralic languages have a witnessed and a non-witnessed past; absence of the verb “to have” Word order. Uralic languages have a Subject-Object-Verb or free word order, depending on the language. Vocabulary
This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-groupings from Finnish to Selkup.Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the Uralic languages have important cultural and social significance in Northern and Eastern Europe, as well as in immigrant communitites throughout Europe and North America.
May 5, 2023 · The Uralic language family is a group of at least 20 related languages that share a history and some grammatical structures. Some of the most widely spoken Uralic languages include Finnish ...
Jan 1, 2002 · Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are the three languages of the Uralic language family that are developed into full cultural languages; other Uralic languages are characterized by dialectal ...
