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词条 Draft:Classification of Uralic languages
释义

  1. History

     Traditional classification 

  2. Active genetic proposals

     Finno-Ugric  East Uralic  Ugric  Ob-Ugric  Finno-Permic  Finno-Volgaic  Central Uralic   West Uralic  Finno-Samic  Samic-Mordvinic 

  3. Other proposals

  4. Known areal groups

     Volga-Kama language area  Core Uralic  Ob-Ugric  Areal groups with tangential Uralic members 

  5. Lexical isoglosses

  6. Phonological isoglosses

  7. Obsolete groupings

  8. The position of extinct branches

  9. Notes

  10. References

{{Draft article|subject=language}}

The Uralic language family comprises nine undisputed groups with no consensus classification between them. An agnostic approach treats them as separate branches.[1]

All Uralic languages are thought to have descended, through independent processes of language change, from Proto-Uralic. The internal structure of the Uralic family has been debated since the family was first proposed.[2]

Obsolete names are displayed in italics.

  • Finnic (Fennic, Baltic Finnic, Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic)
  • Hungarian
  • Khanty (Ostyak, Handi, Hantõ)
  • Mansi (Vogul)
  • Mari (Cheremis)
  • Mordvinic (Mordvin, Mordvinian)
  • Permic (Permian)
  • Sami (Samic, Saamic, Lappic, Lappish)
  • Samoyedic (Samoyed)

History

Traditional classification

A traditional in-depth classification of the Uralic languages has existed since the late 19th century, tracing back to Donner (1879)[3]. It has enjoyed frequent adaptation in whole or in part in encyclopedias, handbooks, and overviews of the Uralic family. Specialist literature in explicit favor of the model is however scarce, and numerous alternate schemes have been proposed. (See below for detailed arguments on each subgroup.)

Donner's model recognized two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages:

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  • Ugric (Ugrian)
    • Hungarian
    • Ob-Ugric (Ob Ugrian)
    • Khanty
    • Mansi
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  • Finno-Permic (Permian-Finnic)
    • Permic
    • Finno-Volgaic (Finno-Cheremisic, Finno-Mari)
    • Volga-Finnic
    • Mari
    • Mordvinic
    • Finno-Samic (Finno-Saamic, Finno-Lappic)
    • Sami
    • Finnic
{{col-end}}

At Donner's time, the Samoyedic languages were still poorly known. Samoyedic as a sister group to Finno-Ugric had, however, already been postulated earlier by Matthias Castrén. As the Samoyedic languages became better known in the early 20th century, and their relationship to Finno-Ugric confirmed, they were found to be quite divergent, and Castrén's assumption of an early separation was retained. The terminology adopted for this was "Uralic" for the entire family, Finno-Ugric for the non-Samoyedic languages (though "Finno-Ugric" has, to this day, remained in use also as a synonym for the whole family).

Donner's "Volga-Finnic" group has been widely rejected, and is often replaced with a Finnic-Samic-Mordvinic group.[4]

Nodes of the traditional family tree recognized in some overview sources:

Source Finno-
Ugric
Ugric Ob-Ugric Finno-
Permic
Finno-
Volgaic
Volga-
Finnic
Finno-
Samic
Szinnyei (1910)[4] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
T. I. Itkonen (1921)[5] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}}
Setälä (1926)[6] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}}
Hajdú (1962)[7][8] {{Y&}} {{N&}}1 {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}}1 {{N&}}
Collinder (1965)[9] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
E. Itkonen (1966)[10] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}}
Austerlitz (1968)[11] {{N&}} 2 {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} 2 {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}}
Voegelin & Voegelin (1977)[12] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}}
Korhonen (1981)[13] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Abondolo (1998:2-3)5{{cn {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Kulonen (2002)[14] {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Lehtinen (2007)[15] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Janhunen (2009)[16] {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
Marcantonio (2009)[17] {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
Encyclopædia Britannica {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} 3 {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}} 4
Pereltsvaig (2012)[18] {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} {{Y&}} 3 {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
  1. Hajdú describes the Ugric and Volgaic groups as areal units.
  2. Austerlitz however accepts narrower-than-traditional Finno-Ugric and Finno-Permic groups that exclude Samic.
  3. As "Finnic".
  4. As "North Finnic".
  5. Following Viitso (1996).

Professional reviews have however been much more skeptical of the model:

Source Finno-
Ugric
Ugric Ob-Ugric Finno-
Permic
Finno-
Volgaic
Volga-
Finnic
Finno-
Samic
Szinnyei (1927){{cn ? {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Hájdu (1979)[19] {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
K. Häkkinen (1983, 1984[20]) {{N&}} {{Y&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
Viitso (1995)[21] ({{Y&}}) 1 {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}}
Salminen (1999, 2002[22]) {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}} {{N&}}
Marcantonio (2002) 2 {{N&}} {{N&}}
J. Häkkinen (2007) {{N&}} {{N&}} {{Y&}} ({{Y&}}) 3 ({{N&}}) 3 ({{N&}}) 3 {{N&}}
  1. Viitso implicitly accepts, but does not review, the validity of the Finno-Ugric node.
  2. Marcantonio additionally rejects the unity of the Uralic family altogether, defending instead the Ural-Altaic hypothesis.
  3. Häkkinen does not review in detail the position of Mari and Permic, though hypothesizes grouping them together.

Doubts about the validity of most of the proposed higher-order branchings (grouping the nine undisputed families) are becoming more common.[2]{{verify source}}

Active genetic proposals

Finno-Ugric

The Finno-Ugric grouping has enjoyed nearly universal acceptance since establishment of the separate Uralic family, and is enshrined in ISO 639-5. Abondolo (1998)[23] still reports "close to universal agreement" on the primary split having been between Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric. Regardless, little explicit evidence in its support has ever been presented.

Phonologically, no unambiguous Finno-Ugric innovations have been located (contrasted with a large body of unambiguous sound changes common to all Samoyedic languages). The rise of long vowels was proposed by Sammallahti (1988) as a Finno-Ugric innovation. This change has however been later shown to be particular to Finnic, and even to have postdated certain developments particular to the group (Aikio 2012, cf. also Kallio 2012). Several of the supposed contrasts between long vowels and their supposed Proto-Uralic sources are moreover not reflected at all in the Ugric evidence (Sammallahti 1988:500). For the most part this applies to Samic and Mordvinic as well (Häkkinen 2009).

Lexical evidence has been frequently cited in support of the Finno-Ugric grouping. The number of inherited vocabulary in Samoyedic is not especially high, and is reported varyingly as 150[24]. Recent studies however appear to indicate this being an artefact of research history. Aikio (2002) presents __ new Uralic etymologies reaching the Samoyedic languages, and argues that the previous low numbers only reflect the Samoyedic languages having been for long less researched than the other Uralic languages, which has led to several cognates going undetected.

{{cn}} notes that a lower number of preserved Proto-Uralic vocabulary is in fact a statistically expected asymmetry: Proto-Samoyedic must be dated as considerably younger than Proto-Uralic, while very little time, if any, can have elapsed between Proto-Uralic and Proto-Finno-Ugric levels. Similarly, some thirty languages comprise the alleged Finno-Ugric group, while the Samoyedic group only has 6-8 members. Häkkinen (2012) argues that the number is moreover not aberrantly low: by comparision, only about __ lexemes can be safely considered inherited from a Proto-Uralic or Proto-Finno-Ugric level in Hungarian.

A different type of lexical evidence in favor of the Finno-Ugric hypothesis has been basic vocabulary. Several pan-Finno-Ugric words such as 'blood', 'marrow', 'hand', 'head', 'cloud', 'stone' lack Samoyedic cognates, as do the numerals 3, 4, 6. The numeral 5 in Finno-Ugric has a Samoyedic cognate with the meaning '10'. The position that all these numerals are post-Proto-Uralic innovations requires the implicit supposition that Proto-Uralic had a number system comprising only 'two' and 'five/ten'. This has been criticized as typologically implausible by __, Aikio (2002), … (see Honti)

Other words may also be innovations in Samoyedic rather than Finno-Ugric, especially as many of the Samoyedic words show phonologically aberrant shape (Aikio). (Abondolo 1998:35: kätə kiwə pilwə ≠ (j)uta pə̈j tiə; Aikio 2002:51: kätə werə widəm jäŋə sükśə kolmə neljä kuttə ≠ utå këm kåjmå sër ërö näkur tettə məktut)

A number of Indo-Iranian loanwords with a distribution covering various Finno-Ugric languages are also known. Häkkinen (1983), Kallio (2006) argue that it is not clear whether these have been adopted into a unitary Proto-Finno-Ugric, or into various slightly differentiated late Proto-Uralic dialects.

Janhunen (2009) identifies two morphological innovations with a Finno-Ugric distribution:

  • A suffixation in the word for 'hare': ńoma > ńomala
  • A suffixation in the word for 'feather': tuxli > tulka. This reconstruction is criticized by Aikio (2012).

East Uralic

In contrast to the Finno-Ugric hypothesis, the East Uralic hypothesis groups Samoyedic together with its neighboring branches: Khanty, Mansi and Hungarian. Although Samoyedic has not been shown to have especial lexical affinity to the others, several phonological innovations characterizing this grouping can be instead found: (Häkkinen 2007, 2009)[25]

  • A rearrangement of the system of voiceless fricative consonants:
    • The Proto-Uralic (PU) non-palatalized sibilants {{UPA|s}}, {{UPA|š}} merge.
    • The merged sound develops to a non-sibilant fricative {{UPA|ϑ}}, reconstructed traditionally as interdental {{IPA|[θ]}}, but according to Häkkinen as {{IPA|[ɬ]}}.
    • This later develops to zero in Hungarian; {{IPA|/t/}} in Mansi, Samoyedic and Southern Khanty; {{IPA|/ɬ/}} in Surgut and Kazym Khanty; {{IPA|/l/}} in Northern and Far Eastern Khanty.
    • The PU palatalized sibilant {{UPA|ś}} develops to a new plain {{IPA|/s/}}.
    • These changes has been previously also noted by several other researchers such as Helimski (1982), Aikio (2002), Salminen (2002). Helimski proposes that these changes may have been of areal nature.{{verify-inline}}
  • In Khanty and Samoyedic, PU {{UPA|ë}} is split to two vowels, higher {{UPA|ï}} and lower {{UPA|ë}}. Häkkinen suggests secondary reversal of this split to have occurred in Mansi.
  • {{UPA|k}} following another obstruent is metathesized to coda position, i.e. the consonant clusters {{UPA|tk}}, {{UPA|sk}}, {{UPA|śk}} merge with {{UPA|kt}}, {{UPA|ks}}, {{UPA|kś}}.
  • Coda {{UPA|k}} then develops into a spirant {{UPA|γ}}. This is retained in Mansi and Khanty, lost in Hungarian and Samoyedic.

Ugric

The Ugric hypothesis groups together Khanty, Mansi and Hungarian. The hypothesis was formed already in the early 19th century, starting from the similarity of the names "Hungary" and "Yugra".[26] Doubts on the reality of the group were raised in the mid-20th century, followed by a detailed defense by László Honti in several publications.[27][28]

  • foo
  • föö
  • føø

Several lexical innovations common to Ugric are also known: approximately __160 lexemes shared only by the three languages, as well as __ lexemes shared by Hungarian and either Mansi or Khanty.

The phonological reconstruction of common Proto-Ugric has resisted efforts. Several researchers (Abondolo 1998: 5) have suggested that any common period must have been rather brief, and {{cn}} even calls it "unreconstructible". Phonologically as well as lexically the three Ugric groups are some of the most innovative units within Uralic (Abondolo 1998: 5), which is expected to contribute to difficulties of reconstruction. Honti regardless suggests several distinct Ugric features:

  • the sibilant system rearrangement ({{UPA|s}}, {{UPA|š}} > {{UPA|ϑ}}; {{UPA|ś}} > {{UPA|s}}). As noted above, these changes appear to encompass Samoyedic as well.
  • the word-internal velar consonant merger ({{UPA|k}}, {{UPA|x}}, {{UPA|w}} > {{UPA|γ}}). On the contrary, Viitso (1995) has noted that the merger of k and x extends also to Mordvinic, Mari and Permic, and could be used to support a westward __.
  • the simplification of {{UPA|lm}}, {{UPA|δm}}, {{UPA|δ´m}} to {{UPA|m}} in certain words
  • the presence of the back unrounded vowel {{UPA|ë}}; analyzed as a retention from Proto-Uralic by Janhunen, Sammallahti and Häkkinen.

Ob-Ugric

The Ob-Ugric hypothesis groups together Mansi and Khanty.

Areal features uniting western varieties of Khanty and northern/eastern varieties of Mansi are common. However no unambiguous phonological innovations shared by Mansi and Khanty as a whole have been found. __. Honti[27] and Viitso (199_, 200_) suggest the shortening of geminate stops as a common innovation. This change has also occurred in most other Uralic languages, including the immediate neighbors Hungarian and Samoyedic; but contrary to most other languages, in Mansi and Khanty the change has not been preceded by the voicing or spirantization of non-geminate stops.

The two languages share a large amount of vocabulary not found in the other Uralic languages.[29][30] A possible common substrate has been proposed by Helimski (2000).[31]

Finno-Permic

Finno-Permic comprises all Uralic languages not covered by East Uralic. The group has traditionally been defined as the languages closer related to Finnish than to Hungarian, and was originally known as simply "Finnic" (a name now reserved for the closest relatives of Finnish: the Baltic-Finnish languages). No clear phonetic innovations characteristic of Finno-Permic as a whole are known[21], but a high amount of shared vocabulary within the group is apparent.[ref]incl. Michalove (2002)[/ref]

Finno-Volgaic

The Finno-Volgaic group comprises all members of Finno-Permic except Permic (i.e. Samic, Finnic, Mordvinic and Mari). It was proposed by Donner (1879) on the grounds of morphological and lexical evidence, and it has largely persisted in tertiary literature. K. Häkkinen (1983) reviews the evidence and finds that after a century of later research, the evidential value of Donner's arguments has all but evaporated: for most of the innovations he lists, either parallels elsewhere in Uralic have been discovered, or their status as common inheritance rather than independent innovations has been questioned.

A phonetic innovation of Finno-Volgaic distribution is *δ´ > *δ between vowels (Viitso 1997). This, however, is in Mari predated by the loss of original *δ in the same position.

As lexical evidence, Janhunen (2009) lists the numerals "8" and "9", derived across the Finno-Volgaic groups from the numerals "2" and "1": Samic *kāvcē, *ëvcē; Finnic *kahdeksa, *ühdeksä; Mordvinic *kav__, *vejksə; Mari *kandekša, *ĭndekšä.

Central Uralic

An alternate hypothesis to Finno-Volgaic is the Central Uralic grouping, comprising Mari and Permic. Already Bereczki (1974, 1988) has noted several features shared by Mari and Permic:

Blazhek (2012) and Lehtinen et al. (201_) have reported that statistical analysis of the Uralic core lexicon supports the group.

West Uralic

In contrast to the Volgaic hypothesis, numerous studies and overviews have supported aligning Mordvinic instead with Finnic and Samic. This hypothesis is accepted by Korhonen (1981), Grünthal (2007), Janhunen (2009).

The peripheral position of Mari within Finno-Volgaic is additionally noted also by Bartens (1999)[32] and Itkonen (1997).

Häkkinen (2007) notes two uniquely shared phonological innovations within the group:

  • a merger of a and ë
  • an intervocalic merger of δ and δ´

The internal structure of the group is not clear. Saarikivi and Lavento (__) note that pairwise isoglosses for all three __ can be found. __ has noted that Erzya shares a slightly higher proportion of vocabulary with Finnic than Moksha does, and Häkkinen (2012) proposes an early isogloss uniting Samic with a northwestern subset of the Mordvinic dialects in particular.

Finno-Samic

Consonant gradation has been viewed as a Finno-Samic innovation; however, a form of consonant gradation is also found in the Samoyedic Nganasan and, to some extent, Selkup. Helimski (1995)[33] has argued that consonant gradation in Finnic and Samic should be considered a shared retention, and therefore undiagnostic for subgrouping.

Samic-Mordvinic

Several innovations in the vowel system being shared by Samic and Mordvinic have been noted by Zhivlov (2014):[34]

  • Lengthening of vowels before {{UPA|x}}.
  • A shift {{UPA|a-i}} > {{UPA|o-a}}, which is however blocked before {{UPA|j}}. This was followed by the merger {{UPA|ë}} > {{UPA|a}}.
  • An assimilation {{UPA|e}} > {{UPA|i}} before 2nd syllable {{UPA|i}}.
West Uralic Samic-Mordvinic Proto-Samic Mordvinic Proto-Finnic
*śarvi}} 'horn' {{UPA>*śorva}}*ćoarvē}}*śurə}}*sarvi}}
*śoδka}} 'goldeneye'*śoδka}}*ćoaδkē}}*śulgə}}*sotka}}
*waji}} 'butter'*waji}}*vuojë}}*vaj}}*voi}}
*nimi}} 'name'*nimi}}*nëmë}}*ńem}}*nimi}}
*weri}} 'blood' {{UPA>*wiri}}*vërë}}*veŕ}}*veri}}

Other proposals

In detailed studies on Uralic classification, frequently also subgroups that have not been confirmed by other studies have been proposed.

  • Northern Finno-Ugric (Samic, Permic, Hungarian, Mansi & Khanty)

The oldest Uralic subgrouping for which classification criteria were presented (Häkkinen 1983). Proposed by Budenz (1879)[35] on the grounds of an assumed phonetic split *n > *n, *ń. Later research has instead supported the view that this contrast was already present in Proto-Uralic and was in some positions secondarily lost in the languages called "southern" by Budenz (Finnic, Mordvinic and Mari).

  • Khanty-Samoyedic

Mentioned by Salminen (2002) as a __"potential" grouping.

  • Western Ugric (Hungarian & Mansi)

Occasionally posited in place of Ob-Ugric, e.g. by Janhunen (2009) (as "Mansic"). A notable feature shared by these languages is the shape of the numeral 'three', with /r/ instead of a lateral consonant (Hungarian három, Northern Mansi хӯрум /xuːrəm/).[36] However, it is unknown if this represents a shared innovation or a shared retention. Janhunen proposes a retention status, though accepts the grouping regardless. Kulonen (2002)[37] also proposes that *r is original, and that languages indicating {{UPA|*l}} have gained it by analogy from the adjacent numeral *neljä 'four'.

  • Finno-Khantic (all branches other than Samoyedic, Mansi and Hungarian)
    • Suggested with hesitation by Janhunen (2009) in contrast to Western Ugric, on the basis of an assumed irregular sound change r > l in the numeral 'three'; see above.
  • Eastern Finno-Ugric (all branches included in Finno-Ugric other than Samic and Finnic)

Suggested early on by Pál Hunfalvy in the 1860s (as "Ugric"). [19]

Re-suggested later by Viitso (1995, 1997, 2000) on the basis of the lenition of *k to *ɣ between vowels. The innovation extends also to Samoyedic (Aikio 2002), which Viitso's study does not cover. Viitso (1997) additionally suggests the loss of gemination of stops, though the idea is abandoned in Viitso (2000): in Mordvinic, Mari, Permic and Hungarian the change is later than the voicing of *p and *t between vowels, while in Ob-Ugric, it leads to a merger of *pp and *tt with *p and *t. The same has been noted by Honti (1983)[27], who considers loss of gemination to have occurred separately in Hungarian and Ob-Ugric.

  • Central Finno-Ugric (Eastern Finno-Ugric minus Khanty and, possibly, Hungarian)
    • Suggested by Viitso (1995) on the basis of a development δ´ > ĺ.
  • Permic-Ugric
    • Suggested by Viitso (1997, 2000) on the basis of the shift δ > l, noted above.
  • Finno-Mordvinic
    • Suggested by Janhunen (2009) on the basis of a common innovation in the numeral system: PF {{UPA|kümmen}}, Mordv. {{UPA|kemeń}} 'ten', replacing inherited luka. This word has been analyzed by Häkkinen (2009) as part of a stratum of substrate loanwords in the more southwestern Uralic languages.

Known areal groups

Later influences between the Uralic languages have been an important force in shaping their development after their initial differentiation, and several areal groups can be identified.

Volga-Kama language area

The languages spoken along the Volga and Kama rivers have evolved an especially remarkable number of similar features. On the Uralic side, the strongest-affected languages have been Mari and Udmurt; the other core members are the Turkic languages Chuvash, Tatar and Bashkir. Mordvinic and Komi show features of this area as well. Two typical features of this area are:[38]

  • the retraction of original initial stress from a close vowel to a following open vowel
  • a shift of close vowels such as i, u to more reduced values such as {{IPA|[ɪ ~ ə̟]}}, {{IPA|[ʊ ~ ə̠]}}.

There is some evidence that the first of these features once extended even wider, to an ancestor of Hungarian as well.

Core Uralic

Before the formation of the Volga-Kama language area, it is possible to assume an earlier language area covering loosely the same territory. This would have however included in addition to Mordvinic, Mari and the Permic languages also all Ugric languages. In a number of ways, these are the most innovative members of the Uralic family, contrasting with the preservation of archaic features in Samic and Finnic on the other hand, the Samoyedic languages on the other. To this area can be assigned especially the following features affecting the general prosody of the languages:

  • Loss of the Proto-Uralic trochaic stress pattern, in favor of strong initial stress.
  • The associated reduction and loss of second-syllable vowels, strongest in Permic and Ugric.
  • In some of the languages, the reduction of unstressed vowels has led to the loss of vowel harmony.
  • Strong lenition of word-medial consonants, leading to loss of consonant gradation.

Abondolo (1998:5) notes a number of features shared in particular by Hungarian and the Permic languages:

  • CVC(C) canonical root structure
  • denasalization
  • -mVn "-ty"
  • The main infinitive suffix: Hungarian -ni, Komi and Udmurt {{IPA|/-nɨ/}}.
  • lexica, e.g. "silver", "bread", "threshold"

Ob-Ugric

{{main|Ob-Ugric languages}}

A high number of secondary areal developments are found in the Ob-Ugric languages, especially between the more western varieties of Khanty and the more eastern varieties of Mansi. As noted above, it has been proposed that perhaps all similarities between Mansi and Khanty may have an explanation of this kind.[38]

Areal groups with tangential Uralic members

The status of Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian as national literary languages has resulted in their shifting towards the Standard Average European language profile. In contrast, the Uralic languages of Russia show by now a considerable extent of Russification, especially Komi, the Mordvinic languages, and the more eastern Finnic languages (Karelian, Veps, Ingrian and Votic). A degree of Russian influence can be found also in Finnish, Estonian, and the Eastern Samic languages.[38]

The extinct Southern Samoyedic languages Kamass and Mator showed several similarities to the Siberian Turkic languages, in particular to Khakas and Shor. Mator and the Koibal dialect of Kamass were eventually lost entirely, their speakers shifting to Turkic languages.[38]

Lexical isoglosses

Lexicostatistics has been used in defense of the traditional family tree. A recent re-evaluation of the evidence[39] however fails to find support for Finno-Ugric and Ugric, suggesting four lexically distinct branches (Finno-Permic, Hungarian, Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic).

One alternate proposal for a family tree, with emphasis on the development of numerals, is as follows:

  • Uralic (kektä "2", wixti "5" / "10")
    • Samoyedic (op "1", ketä "2", näkur "3", tettə "4", səmpəleŋkə "5", məktut "6", sejtwə "7", wiət "10")
    • Finno-Ugric (üki/ükti "1", kormi "3", ńeljä "4", wiiti "5", kuuti "6", luki "10")
    • Finno-Permic (reshaping kektä > kakta)
    • Permic
    • Finno-Volgaic (śećem "7")
    • Mari
    • Finno-Saamic (kakteksa, ükteksa "8, 9")
    • Saamic

Phonological isoglosses

Another, more divergent from the standard, focusing on consonant isoglosses (which does not consider the position of the Samoyedic languages) is presented by Viitso (1997),[40] and refined in Viitso (2000):[41]

  • Saamic–Fennic (consonant gradation)
    • Saamic
    • Fennic
    • Mordva
    • (node)
    • Mari
    • Permian–Ugric (δ > l)
    • Permian
    • Ugric (s š ś > ɬ ɬ s)
    • Hungarian
    • Khanty
    • Mansi

The grouping of the four bottom-level branches remains to some degree open to interpretation, with competing models of Finno-Saamic vs. Eastern Finno-Ugric (Mari, Mordvinic, Permic-Ugric; *k > ɣ between vowels, degemination of stops) and Finno-Volgaic (Finno-Saamic, Mari, Mordvinic; *δ́ > δ between vowels) vs. Permic-Ugric. Viitso finds no evidence for a Finno-Permic grouping.

Extending this approach to cover the Samoyedic languages suggests affinity with Ugric, resulting in the aforementioned East Uralic grouping, as it also shares the same sibilant developments. A further non-trivial Ugric-Samoyedic isogloss is the reduction *k, *x, *w > ɣ when before *i, and after a vowel (cf. *k > ɣ above), or adjacent to *t, *s, *š, or *ś.[25]

Abondolo (1998:5): general lenition a Mo-Ma-P-H areal

Finno-Ugric consonant developments after Viitso (2000); Samoyedic changes after Sammallahti (1988)

Saamic Finnic Mordvinic Mari Permic Hungarian Mansi Khanty Samoyedic
Medial lenition of {{IPA|*k no no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Medial lenition of {{IPA|*p, *t no no yes yes yes yes no no no
Degemination no no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Consonant gradation yes yes no no no no no no yes
Development of*t*t *l l *l *l *r
*δ́gy}}, j *j *j
*s*s *s *s *s *t*t
*h
*ssz}} *s *s
cs}} *ć ~ *š
  • Note: Proto-Khanty ɬ in many of the dialects yields t; it is assumed this also happened in Mansi and Samoyedic.

The inverse relationship between consonant gradation and medial lenition of stops (the pattern also continuing within the three families where gradation is found) is noted by Helimski (1995): an original allophonic gradation system between voiceless and voiced stops would have been easily disrupted by a spreading of voicing to previously unvoiced stops as well.[33]

Obsolete groupings

A Volgaic or Volga-Finnic group, comprised of Mordvinic and Mari, has been proposed in the past, but has not been defended in decades. __ proposed the sound change *ń > *n in word-initial position only as a common innovation. The grouping has been closely scrutitinized by __, who notes that several features indicate closer or equally close affinity of Mordvinic to Finnic and Samic. Blažek (2012) shows that also the lexicostatistical evidence supports the inclusion of Mordvinic in West Uralic.

The position of extinct branches

  • Merya
  • Muromian
  • Meshcherian (until 16th century?)

Abondolo (1998:4): association with the Finno-Volgaic area.

Traces of Finno-Ugric substrata, especially in toponymy, in the northern part of European Russia have been proposed as evidence for even more extinct Uralic languages.[42]

Notes

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