Common Phonetic and Grammatical Features
Piret Klesment, Ago Künnap, Sven-Erik Soosaar, Rein Taagepera
Common Phonetic and Grammatical Features of the Uralic Languages and Other Languages in Northern Eurasia
1. Introduction
The aim of our study is to present a graphic overview, in the form of maps, of some common features among Uralic and some
non-Uralic neighboring languages in their present forms: Indo-European, Altaic and Paleo-Siberian (see Map 1). We abstain from including some
geographically remote languages - from the point of view of Uralic - e.g., Basque, Caucasian, Dravidian, Ainu, Korean and Japanese, among the
Indo-European languages Albanian, Greek, Armenian and Indo-Iranian, and among the Paleo-Siberian languages Gilyak (or Nivkh) and Ainu. A few
indispensable comments and conclusions are added to the maps. At this stage, it is not our purpose to discuss the possible origin of the common
features but only to note their present existence.
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