Proto-Uralic

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.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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 2009

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.

Prehistoric isoglosses in Proto-Steppe 2009

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 2009

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? 2009

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

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 2008

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.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

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 2008

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

Still on the hunt for Semitic-PIE connections 2008