Proto-Uralic language

Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family. The hypothetical language is thought to have been originally spoken in a small area in about 7000–2000 BCE, and expanded to give differentiated Proto-Languages. Some newer research has pushed the "Proto-Uralic homeland" east of the Ural Mountains into Western Siberia.^[2]

Proto-Uralic

Uralic languages

near the Ural Mountains or Sayan Mountains^[1]

7,000–2,000 BCE

The show /e/ or /ɤ/ depending on harmony, word-finally /i/.

Finnic languages

The show a variety of reflexes, but these reflexes can be traced back to a Proto-Samic phoneme *ë, which is also the reflex of Proto-Uralic *i and *ü in stressed syllables.

Samic languages

(no suffix)

nominative

*-m

accusative

*-n

genitive

*-na / *-nä

locative

*-ta / *-tä

ablative

*-ŋ

lative

Syntax[edit]

Proto-Uralic was a SOV language with postpositions and without finite subordination.^[26]^[27]

*kowsi ‘’

spruce

*ďi̮mi ‘’

bird-cherry

*si̮ksa ‘, Pinus sibirica’

Siberian pine

The film (2006) has extensive dialogue in reconstructed Proto-Finno-Samic (Early Proto-Finnic), the proto-language of the Finno-Samic languages.^[30]^[31]

Unna ja Nuuk

Proto-Finnic language

Proto-Uralic homeland hypotheses

Aikio, Ante (2019). . In Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena (eds.). Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

"Proto-Uralic"

Janhunen, Juha. 1981a. "On the structure of Proto-Uralic." Finnisch-ugrische Forschungen 44, 23–42. Helsinki: .

Société finno-ougrienne

Janhunen, Juha. 1981b. "Uralilaisen kantakielen sanastosta ('On the vocabulary of the Uralic proto-language')." Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 77, 219–274. Helsinki: Société finno-ougrienne.

(1984). Problems of phonological reconstruction in modern Uralic linguistics.

Helimski, Eugene

. 1988. "Historical phonology of the Uralic languages, with special reference to Samoyed, Ugric, and Permic." In The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, edited by Denis Sinor, 478–554. Leiden: Brill.