Some Recent Vogulology
(By current standards this perhaps should be “Mansilogy” or “Mansi Studies”, but “Vogulology” just has a good sound to my ear.) 1.
Tag : Dialectology
No mid vowel dissimilation in Greek — nor Finnish?
I recently read “Deconstructing ‘height dissimilation’ in Modern Greek” (Journal of Greek Linguistics 3, 2002) by Julián Méndez Dosula. I
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Accent Bias: Responses to Voices
Continuing our series of posts related to the 'Accent Bias in Britain' project, in this blog post we discuss some findings from our research which
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You are what you Tweet!
In the time that it takes you to read this article, millions of users will have sent a Snapchat, uploaded an Insta Story and updated their Twitter
Two steps towards re-rooting Ludian phonology
Historical/comparative phonology of the Finnic languages has reached remarkably thorough coverage already in the mid-20th century. Nearly all major
Phonology squib: raate
The standard Finnish word for the buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) is raate. This word often appears in overviews of Finnish historical phonology as
Musings on the sociolinguistics of dialect levelling
In Probing the roots of Samoyedic I note that already the clear fragmentation to separate languages demands a deeper age for Samoyedic than for the
Probing the roots of Samoyedic
Last year I participated in a fruitful Academia.edu session on loanwords from Turkic into Samoyedic. I am now honored to see that the final article
Yurats Addenda
One step up from the likes of Meshcheran, probably the most obscure Uralic language to have still been rudimentarily documented is Yurats: a Northern