Uralic

• “Some languages, such as Comanche, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by Native Americans in the United States, or Livonian, a Uralic language used in Latvia, today claim fewer than two hundred speakers.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Hungarian is an Uralic language, which uses an extensive case system to eliminate many prepositions (i.e. noun ending tells you whether it is moving away from you, towards you, or the like).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”

• “I do think the languages are related, but not in an exclusive "Altaic" grouping without Uralic, Indo-European, and your Aegean family.”

  How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese

• “This is a problem that is already typical for anyone who would want to attempt to reconstruct Indo-Uralic, Starostin went so much further than merely Indo-Uralic and not just for one end of the world, but several.”

  How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese

• “So his involvement in Altaic, Abkhaz-Adyghe, Nakh-Daghestanian, Burushaski and Uralic, while far-reaching, makes sense from his own geographical point-of-view.”

  How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese

• “Hungarian is an Uralic language, which uses an extensive case system to eliminate many prepositions i.e. noun ending tells you whether it is moving away from you, towards you, or the like.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”

• “Handbuch der Orientalistik, v.8 1988, p.274: Relating gradation to Uralic or even Finno-Ugric has been criticised because it is only a feature of the languages mentioned above and is not found in any other Uralic language.”

  PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?

• “To sum up, "objective" is a conjugational form that marks verbs as "object-focussed" while "subjective" implies "subject-focus", as in modern Uralic languages like Hungarian or Nenets.”

  Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE

• “For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic.”

  The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective 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.”

  PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?

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