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- adjective Of or relating to both the
Indo-European and theUralic languages; especially, of or pertaining to a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages. - proper noun The Indo-Uralic languages: a proposed language family containing both the
Indo-European and theUralic languages.
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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[1] See, for example, page 2 of Frederik Kortlandt's article Indo-Uralic and Altaic [pdf].
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PhoeniX: "[...] but in the *h2e [Kortlandt] sees an Indo-Uralic dative particle *ka as an object marker of sorts."
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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 2009
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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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[1] See, for example, page 2 of Frederik Kortlandt's article Indo-Uralic and Altaic [pdf].
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Saying laryngeals come from Indo-Uralic velars/uvulars is one thing, implying that there was an alternation retained in Indo-European still seems out there.
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My discovery of all this prompted by Janhunen's suggestion that intervocalic *k followed by *i would yield *x has forced me to reconsider much of my earlier work on Indo-Uralic.
Laryngeal abuse - Phonemes caught in the reconstructive crossfire 2008
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While some seek to unite the first two as Indo-Uralic, they do so still based on systematic formal and functional similarities.
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