Talk:Proto-Uralic language
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"One view is that there were only two archiphonemic non-initial vowels /a/ and /i/, realized as four allophones as per vowel harmony"
This is technicly wrong, for a, ä, i and ï were phonems.
- But not noninitially, that's the point in the theory. --Vuo 19:21, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Any particular reason why the lative is called allative? And why its ending is claimed to be -η? Some suffixes and words also look different than the ones I have mostly encountered.
- The lative ending *-ŋ is found in Samoyed and Mordvin, and this also probably gave the Saami lative *-k and Finnic *-k ~ *-n through sound change in word-final position. And you're right, lative is the traditional term; I'll fix this. The reconstructions derive from J. Janhunen, Uralilaisen kantakielen sanastosta (1981) and P. Sammallahti, Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages (1988); these are generally considered the most up-to-date references on Proto-Uralic word-root reconstructions. --AAikio 18:02, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Correspondences
Hi! Could you, please, add a table of regular phonological correspondences? Or if you send me the data (in any format), I can put it into a wiki-form ;-) Petusek
[edit] IPA
I just added the IPA. Please tell me if I made any mistakes – no, don't tell me, just correct them. :-)
David Marjanović | david.marjanovic_at_gmx.at | 12:45 CEST | 2006/9/15
Hm, I think a should be swiched to ɑ?
