Nenets resources
Tapani Salminen at the University of Helsinki maintains a very useful Tundra Nenets homepage. It contains a copy of the chapter he provided to Routledge’s The Uralic Languages, the UNESCO Red Book...
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In Helsinki
I arrived in Finland on Saturday and this morning came to Helsinki where I will be for one week. With daylight being too limited for much sightseeing and my linguistic curiosity insatiable, I probably...
View ArticleComparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia Dictionary
This is a really cool resource of the kind I wish I saw more of: the St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences offers a Comparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia...
View ArticleThe CoE’s report on the Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed peoples
The report drafted by Katrin Saks of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the situation of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed peoples in Russia has now been published. Before going into a...
View ArticleEugene Helimski RIP
Eugene Helimski, one of the foremost Uralicists of our time and a tireless researcher of the Samoyed languages, has passed away in Hamburg. 25 декабря 2007 года в Гамбурге после тяжелой и...
View ArticleFestschrift for Sammallahti now available on the web
The Sami-titled Festschrift for Pekka Sammallahti Sámit, sánit, sátnehámit. Riepmočála Pekka Sammallahtii miessemánu 21. beaivve 2007, published last spring as Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne...
View ArticleDating sound change in the ancestor of Chuvash
Chuvash, and its now-extinct sister languages, show r in many instances where the rest of the Turkic family shows z, e.g. Turkic buzagu ‘calf’ ~ Proto-Chuvash buragu (Chuvash păru). In his summary...
View ArticleNganasan vowel harmony
Over at his excellent weblog Rénhírek, László Fejes has written several concise introductions to the vowel harmony of various Uralic languages. I’ve translated below his Nganasan description. The...
View ArticleUnpleasant herding tasks
I’m not really sure what to make of this passage in András Róna-Tas’ paper ‘Turkic influence on the Uralic languages’, found in The Uralic Languages ed. Denis Sinor (Amsterdam: Brill, 1988). Róna-Tás...
View ArticleNenets-Nganasan comparison
In a Nenets course this fall, I’ve used a lot the Comparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia Dictionary compiled by St. Petersburg scholars Marina Lublinskaya and Tatiana Sherstinova, with headwords in...
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