Proto-Uralic

• “Try imagining a situation where a para-IE dialect *beside* Mid IE the direct ancestor of PIE c.5500 BCE, let's say diverges already before PIE proper develops and it has become influenced by northerly Proto-Uralic to form palatal affricates.”

  The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model

• “In relation to this topic, Frederik Kortlandt has suggested that Proto-Uralic too had consonant gradation when in fact most Uralicists today accept that consonant gradation was a post-Uralic innovation1, one of many flaws in his work that makes it difficult for me to take seriously.”

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• “Many people refer to this early hypothetical language set most sensibly around 9,000 BCE as Indo-Uralic and it's called this because it's the common ancestor of both Proto-Uralic (PU) and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) afterall.”

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• “See Sinor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History, and Foreign Influences from Handbuch der Orientalistik, v.1 1988, p.557: concerning Collinder's Proto-Uralic suffix *-ka.”

  Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person

• “PIE *mesg is usually linked with Proto-Uralic *mos'ki Sammalahti's reconstruction, to wash.”

  Still on the hunt for Semitic-PIE connections

• “I figured that if the original plural common to Proto-Indo-European (PIE), Proto-Aegean, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic (PA) was *-it, then presumably PIE and PA share the isogloss of Sibilantization of word-final *-t.”

  My suspicion regarding the source of *r2 in Pre-Altaic seems to be confirmed

• “The nominative singular was at this point still without any case ending just like in Proto-Uralic.”

  Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system

• “Tropylium: "Proto-Uralic has no voice distinction whatsoever and can thus hardly be used to debunk any specific phonation.”

  Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing

• “Proto-Uralic has no voice distinction whatsoever and can thus hardly be used to debunk any specific phonation.”

  Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing

• “Theoretically minä was already serving in part as an "agentive" in the earliest Uralic stage, and then came to mark the subject as a whole once Proto-Samoyedic started seperating from Proto-Uralic.”

  Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions

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