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- proper noun linguistics, uncountable The hypothetical
ancestor language orprotolanguage ofFinnic andUgric languages. Usually written with theUPA -transcription system. - proper noun anthropology, countable A person who spoke the Proto-Finno-Ugric language.
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One sharp problem is that Proto-Indo-Iranian is well-proven to have been in contact with Proto-Finno-Ugric at around 2500 BCE.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan 2009
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And taking other sets of documented languages as inputs, we get Proto-Semitic, Proto-Finno-Ugric, Proto -
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968
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