Indo-Uralic languages

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Indo-Uralic
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Indo-Uralic is a highly controversial linguistic hypothesis proposing a genealogical family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic.[2]

The suggestion of a

genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic is often credited to the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336), though an even earlier version was proposed by Finnish linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853 and 1863.[3] Both were received with little enthusiasm. Since then, the predominant opinion in the linguistic community has remained that the evidence for such a relationship is insufficient to confirm a genetic relationship versus similarity due to language contact. However, quite a few prominent linguists have always taken the contrary view (e.g. Henry Sweet, Holger Pedersen, Björn Collinder, Warren Cowgill, Jochem Schindler, Eugene Helimski, Frederik Kortlandt and Alwin Kloekhorst
).

The Indo-Uralic hypothesis has been questioned by recent linguistic data, contradicting previous argued cognates, finding no support for a genealogical relationship between Uralic and Indo-European.[4]

Geography of the proposed Indo-Uralic family

The Dutch linguist Frederik Kortlandt supports a model of Indo-Uralic in which the original Indo-Uralic speakers lived north of the Caspian Sea, and the Proto-Indo-European speakers began as a group that branched off westward from there to come into geographic proximity with the Northwest Caucasian languages, absorbing a Northwest Caucasian lexical blending before moving farther westward to a region north of the Black Sea where their language settled into canonical Proto-Indo-European (2002:1). Allan Bomhard suggests a similar schema in Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis (1996). Alternatively, the common protolanguage may have been located north of the Black Sea, with Proto-Uralic moving northwards with the climatic improvement of post-glacial times.

Expanding upon his earlier hypothesis, Kortlandt (2021) proposes that Proto-Indo-European, rather than being a sister of Proto-Uralic, is a daughter of Proto-Uralic, and that Indo-European is a branch of the Uralic family. More specifically, he proposes that Proto-Indo-European and

paraphyletic
clade.

History of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis

An authoritative if brief and sketchy history of early Indo-Uralic studies can be found in

K. B. Wiklund appeared in 1906 and another by Heikki Paasonen
in 1908 (i.e. 1907) (ib.). Pedersen considered that these two studies sufficed to settle the question and that, after them, "it seems unnecessary to doubt the relationship further" (ib.).

Sweet considered the relationship to be securely established, stating (1900:120; "Aryan" = Indo-European, "Ugrian" = Finno-Ugric):

If all these and many other resemblances that might be adduced do not prove the common origin of Aryan and Ugrian, and if we assume that the Ugrians borrowed not only a great part of their vocabulary, but also many of their derivative syllables, together with at least the personal endings of their verbs from Aryan, then the whole fabric of comparative philology falls to the ground, and we are no longer justified in inferring from the similarity of the inflections in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit that these languages have a common origin.

The short name "Indo-Uralic" (German Indo-Uralisch) for the hypothesis was first introduced by Hannes Sköld 1927.[3]

Björn Collinder, author of the Comparative Grammar of the Uralic Languages (1960), a standard work in the field of Uralic studies, argued for the kinship of Uralic and Indo-European (1934, 1954, 1965).

Alwin Kloekhorst, author of the Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon, endorses the Indo-Uralic grouping (2008b). He argues that, when features differ between the Anatolian languages (including Hittite) and the other Indo-European languages, comparisons with Uralic can help to establish which group has the more archaic forms (2008b: 88) and that, conversely, the success of such comparisons helps to establish the Indo-Uralic thesis (2008b: 94). For example, in Anatolian the nominative singular of the second person pronoun comes from *ti(H), whereas in the non-Anatolian languages it comes from *tu(H); in Proto-Uralic it was *ti, which agrees with evidence from internal reconstruction that Anatolian has the more archaic form (2008b: 93).

The most extensive attempt to establish sound correspondences between Indo-European and Uralic to date is that of the Slovenian linguist Bojan Čop. It was published as a series of articles in various academic journals from 1970 to 1989 under the collective title Indouralica. The topics to be covered by each article were sketched out at the beginning of "Indouralica II". Of the projected 18 articles only 11 appeared. These articles have not been collected into a single volume and thereby remain difficult to access.

In the 1980s, Russian linguist N. D. Andreev [ru] (Nikolai Dmitrievich Andreev) proposed a "Boreal languages [ru]" hypothesis linking the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic (including Korean in his later papers) language families. Andreev also proposed 203 lexical roots for his hypothesized Boreal macrofamily. After Andreev's death in 1997, the Boreal hypothesis was further expanded by Sorin Paliga (2003, 2007).[5][6]

Sound correspondences

Among the sound correspondences which Čop did assert were (1972:162):

  • Uralic m n l r = Indo-European m n l r.
  • Uralic j w = Indo-European i̯ u̯.
  • Uralic sibilants (presumably s š ś) = Indo-European s.
  • Uralic word-initial voiceless stops (presumably p t č ć k) = Indo-European word-initial voiced aspirates (presumably bʰ dʰ ǵʰ gʰ gʷʰ) and voiceless stops (presumably p t ḱ k kʷ), also Indo-European s followed by one of these stops.
  • Uralic ŋ = Indo-European g and ng.

History of opposition to the Indo-Uralic hypothesis

The history of early opposition to the Indo-Uralic hypothesis does not appear to have been written. It is clear from the statements of supporters such as Sweet that they were facing considerable opposition and that the general climate of opinion was against them, except perhaps in Scandinavia.

Károly Rédei, editor of the etymological dictionary of the Uralic languages (1986a), rejected the idea of a genetic relationship between Uralic and Indo-European, arguing that the lexical items shared by Uralic and Indo-European were due to borrowing from Indo-European into Proto-Uralic (1986b).

Perhaps the best-known critique of recent times is that of Jorma Koivulehto,[citation needed] issued in a series of carefully formulated articles. Koivulehto’s central contention, agreeing with Rédei's views, is that all of the lexical items claimed to be Indo-Uralic can be explained as loans from Indo-European into Uralic (see below for examples).

The linguists Christian Carpelan, Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio suggest that early Indo-European and Uralic stand in early contact and suggest that any similarities between them are explained through early language contact and borrowings.[7]

According to Angela Marcantonio (2014) and Johan Schalin a genetic relation between Uralic and Indo-European is very unlikely and mostly all similarities are explained through borrowings and chance resemblances. Marcantonio argued that the fundamental typological differences between Uralic and Indo-European are so much, that a relationship is unlikely.[8]

In 2022, a group of scholars concluded that proto-Uralic and proto-Indo-European do not share a genealogical relationship with each other, as "whether based on cognacy or loans the argument from lexical resemblances is flawed". According to them, "Uralic is distinctive in western Eurasia. A number of typological properties are eastern-looking overall, fitting comfortably into northeast Asia, Siberia, or the North Pacific Rim". Previously proposed cognates can be largely explained via borrowings from Indo-Iranian languages. They concluded in regards to the Indo-Uralic hypothese that "of what we take to be the two statistically soundest recent quantitative tests, Kessler and Lehtonen (2006), using a 100-item Swadesh-like wordlist, found no evidence for Indo-Uralic".[9]

Linguistic similarities

Morphological

The most common arguments in favour of a relationship between Indo-European and Uralic are based on seemingly common elements of

SOV word order. Other, less obvious correspondences are suggested, such as the Indo-European plural marker *-es (or *-s in the accusative plural *-m̥-s) and its Uralic counterpart *-t. This same word-final assibilation
of *-t to *-s may also be present in Indo-European second-person singular *-s in comparison with Uralic second-person singular *-t. Compare, within Indo-European itself, *-s second-person singular injunctive, *-si second-person singular present indicative, *-tHa second-person singular perfect, *-te second-person plural present indicative, *tu "you" (singular) nominative, *tei "to you" (singular) enclitic pronoun. These forms suggest that the underlying second-person marker in Indo-European may be *t and that the *u found in forms such as *tu was originally an affixal particle or merely analogical.

Similarities have long been noted between the verb conjugation systems of Uralic languages (e.g. that of

Proto-Uralic. But even then, similar suspicious parallels have been noted between Hungarian and Armenian
verb conjugation.) However, the strongly divergent sound systems of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic are an aggravating factor both in the morphological and the lexical realm, making it additionally difficult to judge resemblances and interpret them as either borrowings, possible cognates or chance resemblances.

Lexical

A second type of evidence advanced in favor of an Indo-Uralic family is lexical. Numerous words in Indo-European and Uralic resemble each other (see list below). The problem is to distinguish between cognates and borrowings. Uralic languages have been in contact with a succession of Indo-European languages for millennia. As a result, many words have been borrowed between them, most often from Indo-European languages into Uralic ones.

An example of a Uralic word that cannot be original is Finno-Ugric *śata "hundred". The Proto-Indo-European form of this word was *ḱm̥tóm (compare Latin centum), which became *ćatám in early Indo-Iranian (reanalyzed as the neuter nominative–accusative singular of an a stem > Sanskrit śatá-, Avestan sata-). This is evidence that the word was borrowed into Finno-Ugric from Indo-Iranian or Indo-Aryan. This borrowing may have occurred in the region north of the Pontic–Caspian steppes around 2100–1800 BC, the approximate floruit of Indo-Iranian (Anthony 2007:371–411). It provides linguistic evidence for the geographical location of these languages around that time, agreeing with archeological evidence that Indo-European speakers were present in the Pontic-Caspian steppes by around 4500 BCE (the Kurgan hypothesis) and that Uralic speakers may have been established in the Pit-Comb Ware culture to their north in the fifth millennium BCE (Carpelan & Parpola 2001:79).

Another ancient borrowing is Finno-Ugric *porćas "piglet". This word corresponds closely in form to the Proto-Indo-European word reconstructed as *porḱos, attested by such forms as Latin porcus "hog",

Saka
pāsa (< *pārsa) "pig". In the Indo-European word, *-os (> Finno-Ugric *-as) is a masculine nominative singular ending, but it is quite meaningless in Uralic languages. This shows that the whole word was borrowed as a unit and is not part of the original Uralic vocabulary.

One of the most famous borrowings is the Finnish word

Proto-Indo-European
masculine o-stems.

Thus, *śata cannot be Indo-Uralic on account of its phonology, while *porćas and *kuningas cannot be Indo-Uralic on account of their morphology.

Such words as those for "hundred", "pig", and "king" have something in common: they represent "cultural vocabulary" as opposed to "basic vocabulary". They are likely to have been acquired along with a novel number system and the domestic pig from Indo-Europeans in the south. Similarly, the Indo-Europeans themselves had acquired such words and cultural items from peoples to their south or west, including possibly their words for "ox", *gʷou- (compare English cow) and "grain", *bʰars- (compare English barley). In contrast, basic vocabulary – words such as "me", "hand", "water", and "be" – is much less readily borrowed between languages. If Indo-European and Uralic are genetically related, there should be agreements regarding basic vocabulary, with more agreements if they are closely related, fewer if they are less closely related.

Advocates of a genetic relation between Indo-European and Uralic maintain that the borrowings can be filtered out by application of phonological and morphological analysis and that a core of vocabulary common to Indo-European and Uralic remains. As examples they advance such comparisons as Proto-Uralic *weti- (or *wete-) : Proto-Indo-European *wodr̥, oblique stem *wedn-, both meaning 'water', and Proto-Uralic *nimi- (or *nime-) : Proto-Indo-European *h₁nōmn̥, both meaning 'name'. In contrast to *śata and *kuningas, the phonology of these words shows no sound changes from Indo-European daughter languages such as Indo-Iranian. In contrast to *kuningas and *porćas, they show no morphological affixes from Indo-European that are absent in Uralic. According to advocates of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis, the resulting core of common vocabulary can only be explained by the hypothesis of common origin.

Objections to this interpretation

It has been countered that nothing prevents this common vocabulary from having been borrowed from Proto-Indo-European into Proto-Uralic.

For the old loans, as well as uncontroversial ones from Proto-Baltic and Proto-Germanic, it is more the rule than the exception that only the stem is borrowed, without any case-endings.

Proto-Uralic
*weti- could be a loan from the PIE oblique e-grade form for 'water' or from an indirectly attested cognate root noun *wed-. Proto-Uralic *toHį- 'give' and PFU *wetä- 'lead' also make perfect phonologic sense as borrowings.

The number systems of Indo-European and Uralic show no commonalities. Moreover, while the numbers in all Indo-European languages can be traced back to reconstructed Proto-Indo-European numbers, this cannot be done for the Uralic numbers, where only "two" and "five" are common to all of the family (roots for 3-6 are common to all subgroups other than Samoyedic, and slightly less widespread roots are known for 1 and 10). This would appear to show that if Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic are to be related, the connection must lie so far back that the families developed their number systems independently and did not inherit them from their purported common ancestor. Although, the fact that Uralic languages themselves do not share the same numbers across all Uralic branches indicates that they would not with Indo-European languages in any case, even if they were in fact related.

It is also objected[by whom?] that some or all of the common vocabulary items claimed are false cognates – words whose resemblance is merely coincidental, like English bad and Persian bad.

Some possible cognates

Meaning Proto-Indo-European Indo-European examples Proto-Uralic Uralic examples References
first person singular *-m Sanskrit -m, Old Persian -m, Latin -m, Oscan -m. *-m Finnish -n (-n < -m), Mordvin -m, Mari -m, Mansi -m, Udmurt -m; Yurak -m, Tavgi -m.
first person plural *-me Lithuanian -me, Sanskrit -ma, Greek -men. *-me Finnish -me, Saami -mek (preterite), Mordvin -ma; Tavgi -mu’, Kamassian -bɛ’.
second person singular *-s (active) Sanskrit -s, Greek -s, Latin -s, Gothic -s, Hittite -s. *-t Finnish -t, Mordvin -t, Mari -t.
*-tHa (perfect) Greek -tʰa, Sanskrit -tʰa.
second person plural *-te Greek -te, Old Church Slavic -te. *-te Finnish -te, Saami -dek (preterite), Mordvin -da, Mari -dä, Hungarian -tek; Yenisei -δa’.
accusative *-m Sanskrit -m, Old Persian -m, Latin -m, Oscan -m. *-m Finnish -n (-n < -m), Mari -m, Mansi -m; Yurak -m, Kamassian -m
ablative *-od Sanskrit tasmād 'from this', Old Latin meritōd 'deservedly'. *-ta Finnish -ta ~ -tä, Mordvin -da ~ -ta, Veps -d.
nominative–accusative plural *-es (nominative plural) Greek -es, Sanskrit -as. *-t Finnish -t, Mordvin -t, Udmurt -t; Selkup -t.
*-n̥s (accusative plural) < *-m̥ (acc.sg.) + *-(e)s (pl.) Greek trí-ns, Gothic sunu-ns.
oblique plural *-i (pronominal plural, as in *we-i- 'we' *to-i- 'those') Gothic wei-s, Sanskrit vay-ám; Greek toí, Avestan tōi. *-i Saami -i, Finnish -i; Hungarian -i- (e.g. hajó 'ship', hajó-m 'my ship', hajó-i-m 'my ships').
dual *-H₁ A lost consonant has lengthened the final vowel, as in Sanskrit tā́ nominative–accusative dual versus tá-m accusative singular. *-k Mansi -γ, Selkup -qy.
'and' (postposed conjunction) *-kʷe Latin -que, Greek te, Sanskrit -ca, etc. *-ka ~ *-kä Finnish -kä in ei ... eikä 'neither ... nor', Saami -ge, Mordvin -ka, Votyak -ke, Komi / Zyrian -kȯ, etc.
negative particle 'not' *ne Latin ne-, Greek ne-, Sanskrit ná, Old High German and Old English ne ~ ni, etc. *ne Hungarian ne/nem, Mari nõ-, ni-, Votyak / Udmurt ni-, etc.
'I, me' *me 'me' (accusative) Greek me (enclitic). *mun, *mina 'I' Finnish minä, Estonian mina, Nenets /mønʲə/.[1] Uralic reconstruction *mun.
*mene 'my' (genitive) Old Persian mana, Old Church Slavic mene, Welsh men, etc.
'you' (singular) *tu (nominative) Latin tū, Greek sú (Attic), tu (Dorian), Lithuanian tù, Old English þu > archaic English thou, etc. *tun, *tina Finnish sinä (< *tinä), Saami ton, tú-, Mordvin ton, Votyak ton, Zyrian te, accusative tenõ, Hungarian te 'you' (singular), ti 'you' (plural), etc. Samoyed: Tavgi tannaŋ, Yeniseian Samoyed tod'i, Selkup tan, tat, Kamassian tan.
*twe (accusative) Greek sé, Sanskrit tvā (enclitic), Avestan θwā (enclitic), Old Church Slavic tebe, etc.
*tewe 'your' (genitive) Sanskrit táva, Avestan tava, Proto-Celtic *towe (< PIE *tewe, with complex developments in the individual languages, Lewis and Pedersen 1989:193-217).
demonstrative pronoun *so 'this, he/she' (animate nominative singular) Gothic sa, Sanskrit sá, etc. *sä 'he/she, it' Finnish hän (< *sä-n), Saami son, Mordvin son, Udmurt so. Samoyed: Nganasan syty.
demonstrative pronoun *to- 'this, that' Greek tó, Sanskrit tá-, Old Church Slavic to, etc. *tä 'this', *to 'that' Finnish tämä 'this' and tuo 'that (one)', Mari ti 'this', Mordvin tä 'this', etc.; Udmurt tu 'that', Mordvin to 'that', etc. Cf. Hungarian tétova 'hesitant' (i.e. reluctant to choose between this and that).
'who?' (interrogative pronoun) *kʷi- ~ *kʷe- ~ *kʷo- 'who?, what?' *kʷi-: Hittite kuis (animate nominative singular), kuit (inanimate nominative–accusative singular), Latin quis, quid, Greek tís, tí, etc.
*kʷe-: Greek téo (Homeric), Avestan čahmāi (dative singular; ča < PIE *kʷe), etc.
*kʷo-: Latin quod, Old Latin quoius > Latin cuius (genitive singular), Old English hwæt > English what, etc.		 *ki ~ *ke ~ *ku ~ *ko 'who?, what?' Saami gi ~ gä 'who?, which?, what sort of?' and gutti 'who?', Mordvin ki 'who?', Mari ke, kö, kü 'who?', Hungarian ki 'who?', Finnish kuka 'who?', Komi / Zyrian kod 'which?', Ostyak koji 'who?', kŏti 'what?', etc.
*kʷi/e/o- + -ne 'who?, what?' Latin quidne. *ken 'who?' Finnish ken ~ kene 'who?', Votyak kin 'who?', Udmurt kin 'who?', Komi / Zyrian kin 'who?'. Samoyed: Yurak Samoyed kin 'who?', Southern Nenets kin 'who?'.
'to give' *deH₃- Hittite tā-, Latin dō, Greek dídōmi, Sanskrit dā-, etc. *toHi- Finnish tuo 'bring', Estonian too- 'bring', Saami duokə- 'sell', Mordvin tuje- 'bring'. Samoyed: Tundra Yurak taš 'give, bring', Enets ta- 'bring', Tavgi tətud'a 'give, bring', etc. Kortlandt (1989)
'to moisten' *wed- Sanskrit ud-. *weti 'water' Finnish vesi / vete-, Estonian vesi, Mordvin ved, Udmurt vu, Komi / Zyrian va, Vogul wit, Hungarian víz. Samoyed: Forest Yurak wit, Selkup üt, Kamassian bü, etc.1 Kortlandt (1989)
'water' *woder- Hittite wātar (instrumental wēdanda), Umbrian utur (ablative une < *udne), Greek húdōr (genitive húdatos < *hudn̥tos), Sanskrit ud-án- (oblique cases only, nominative–accusative defective), Old Church Slavic voda, Gothic watō (n-stem, dative plural watnam), Old Norse vatn, Old English wæter > English water, etc.2
'name' *nomen- 'name' Latin nōmen, Greek ónoma, Sanskrit nā́man-, Old English nama > English name, etc.3 *nimi 'name' Finnish nimi, Saami nama ~ namma, Mordvin lem, Mari lüm, Votyak and Zyrian ńim, Vogul näm, Ostyak nem, Hungarian név. Among the Samoyed languages: Yurak nim, Tavgi ńim, Yenisei Samoyed ńii’, Selkup nim, nem. Compare, in Yukaghir, Kolyma niu and Chuvan nyva. Kortlandt (1989)
'fish' *kʷalo- 'large fish' Latin squalus (with s-mobile) 'large sea fish', Old Prussian kalis 'sheatfish', Old English hwæl 'whale' > English whale, etc. *kala 'fish' Finnish kala, Estonian kala, Saami kuollē, Mordvin kal, Mari kol, Ostyak kul, Hungarian hal; Enets kare, Koibal kola, etc.
'sister-in-law' *galou- 'husband's sister' Latin glōs (genitive glōris), Greek gálōs, Old Church Slavic zŭlŭva, all meaning 'husband's sister'. *kälɜ 'sister-in-law' Finnish käly 'sister-in-law', Estonian käli 'husband's brother, wife of husband's brother', Saami kāloji 'sister-in-law', Mordvin kel 'sister-in-law', etc.
'much' *pḷlu- 'much' Greek polú-, Sanskrit purú-, Avestan pouru-, Gothic filu, Old High German filu > German viel, all meaning 'much'.4 *paljɜ 'thick, much' Finnish paljon 'much', Mari pülä 'rather a lot', Vogul pāľ 'thick', Yurak palɁ 'thick'. Cp. Tundra Yukaghir pojuoŋ 'many'.
'to go' *kʷelH- *kulki-
'to wash' *mesg- *mośki- Kordtland (2002)
'pot' *pot- *pata

1Some researchers have interpreted Proto-Uralic *wete as a borrowing from Indo-European that may have replaced a native Proto-Uralic synonym *śäčä everywhere but in some of the northern fringes of the family (most prominently Proto-Samic *čācē).

2 This word belongs to the r and n stems, a small group of neuter nouns, from an archaic stratum of Indo-European, that alternate -er (or -or) in the nominative and accusative with -en in the other cases. Some languages have leveled the paradigm to one or the other, e.g. English to the r, Old Norse to the n form.

3 Indo-Europeanists are divided on whether to reconstruct this word as *nom(e)n- or as *H₁nom(e)n-, with a preceding "laryngeal". See Delamarre 2003:50 for a summary of views, with references. The o timbre of the root is assured by, among others, Greek ónoma and Latin nōmen (with secondary vowel lengthening). As roots with inherent o are uncommon in Indo-European, most roots having e as their vowel, the underlying root is probably *nem-. The -(e)n is an affixal particle. Whether the e placed in parentheses is inherently part of the word is disputed but probable.

4 The ḷ in Indo-European *pḷlu- represents a vocalic l, a sound found in English in for instance little, where it corresponds to the -le, and metal, where it corresponds to the -al. An earlier form of the Indo-European word was probably *pelu-.


The following resemblance sets are from Aikio (2019).[10]

Proto-Uralic Proto-Indo-European Indo-European example
*aja- ‘drive; flee’ *h2aǵ- ‘drives’ Sanskrit ájati ‘drives’
*kaja ‘dawn / sun’ *h2ay-en/r- ‘day’ Avestan aiiarǝ ‘day’
*kulki- ‘go, run, flow’ *kʷelh1-e- 'moves, walks’ Sanskrit cárati ‘moves, walks’
*teki- ‘do; put’ *dʰeh1- ‘puts’ Sanskrit dádhāti ‘puts’
*toxi- ‘bring *doh3- ‘give’ Sanskrit dádāti ‘gives’
*weti ‘water’ *wed-en/r- ‘water’ Hittite wedār ‘water’

Bibliography

Works cited

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (2004). "NIVKH AS A URALO-SIBERIAN LANGUAGE". researchgate.net.
  2. ISBN 9783110542431
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  3. ^ a b Kallio, Petri (2019). "Daniel Europaeus and Indo-Uralic". The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European. The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. Leiden: Brill. pp. 74–87.
  4. ISSN 0176-4225
    . Of what we take to be the two statistically soundest recent quantitative tests, Kessler and Lehtonen (2006), using a 100-item Swadesh-like wordlist, found no evidence for Indo-Uralic
  5. ^ Paliga, Sorin (2003). N. D. Andreev’s Proto-Boreal Theory and Its Implications in Understanding the Central-East and Southeast European Ethnogenesis: Slavic, Baltic and Thracian. Romanoslavica 38: 93–104. Papers and articles for the 13th International Congress of Slavicists, Ljubljana, August 15–21, 2003.
  6. ISBN 978-973-87920-3-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link
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  7. ^ Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations - Parpola et al. Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki
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  9. S2CID 248059749
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  10. ^ Aikio, Ante (January 2022). "Proto-Uralic". In Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena (eds.). Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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