Modern day Uralic-speaking people in Estonia, Finland, Hungary and Russia can trace their ancestry back to groups of ancient Uralic people by their DNA.David Keyton/AP PHoto/picture alliance ...

Abstract: In this paper, the author poses three questions of historical phonology and gives explanations that are meant to be rational: 1. With respect to the ...

THE Washington Post reports today that linguists have discovered a handful of "ultraconserved" words, some 15,000 years old. These are said to include "hand", "give", "bark" and "ash". The paper is ...

Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish likely did not evolve in Europe, but instead were imported from Siberia at the beginning of the Iron Age 2,500 years ago. Most Europeans are descendants of a ...

The project will combine etymological and typological data to improve the resolution of Uralic phylogeny and clarify questions of areal affinity and contact over time from Proto-Uralic to historical ...

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