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Will Someone Please Reconstruct Proto-Kurdish Already

Posted on Wed 2022-02-09 by sansdomino — 16 Comments

Some things about comparative linguistics you might just take for granted in your own little corner of a particular language family, until you start looking at how they do things in others. In Uralic studies, we’ve known for 200+ years,…

Indo-Iranisms galore?

Posted on Thu 2014-11-20 by sansdomino — 2 Comments

Currently I am making my way through a fascinating and peculiar book: Hartmut Katz’s posthumously released Studien zu den älteren indoiranischen Lehnwörtern in den uralischen Sprachen (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2003). Fascinating, in that the book’s ~700 loan etymologies, some…

A Sušpicious Absense

Posted on Mon 2013-09-30 by sansdomino — 5 Comments

Here’s to resume the topic of sibilant+stop clusters in loanwords into Finnic, previously treated in “Extending a substitution pattern”. This time I’m focusing on clusters involving the bilabial stop /p/. For some reason, clusters of the type /Sp/ were originally…