Uralo-Siberian languages

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Uralo Siberian is a hypothetical macro family suggested by Michael Fortescue in his 1998 book Language Relations across Bering Strait . It represents an extension of the Ural-Yukagirian hypothesis (see Ural languages ) and consists of the following language families:

Fortescue argues that the languages ​​of these families are very similar in their phonological and morphological structure and share a number of grammatical morphemes . For example, both Ural and Eskimo Aleut mark the plural with * -t and the dual with * -k . The pronominal roots * m- for the 1st person and * t- for the 2nd person can be found in all four families. Fortescue also cites 95 lexical correspondences (which is admittedly not an overwhelmingly large number, especially since contact phenomena cannot be ruled out) and lists some phonetic correspondences between the language families.

The Uralo-Siberian is a subset of the Eurasian by Joseph Greenberg . It is long known that these common morphemes and lexemes are spread over belonging to the Uralo-Siberian language families addition, therefore, the approach seems Uralo-Siberian not go far enough to grab .

literature

  • Michael D. Fortescue: Language Relations across Bering Strait. Reappraising the archeological and linguistic evidence . Cassell, London 1998, ISBN 0-304-70330-3 .
  • Joseph Greenberg : Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives. The Eurasiatic language family Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. 2000/02, ISBN 0-8047-3812-2 (2 vol.).
  • Heinrich Koppelmann : The Eurasian language family. Indo-European, Korean and related . Carl Winters University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1933.

See also the literature on the article   Eurasian .

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