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| Indo-Uralic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Eurasia |
| Linguistic classification | Proposed language family |
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| Glottolog | None |
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Indo-Uralic is a highly controversial linguistic hypothesis proposing a genealogical family consisting of Indo-European and Uralic.[2]
The suggestion of a genetic relationship between Indo-European and Uralic is often credited to the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1869 (Pedersen 1931:336), though an even earlier version was proposed by Finnish linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853 and 1863.[3] Both were received with little enthusiasm. Since then, the predominant opinion in the linguistic community has remained that the evidence for such a relationship is insufficient to confirm a genetic relationship versus similarity due to language contact. However, quite a few prominent linguists have always taken the contrary view (e.g. Henry Sweet, Holger Pedersen, Björn Collinder, Warren Cowgill, Jochem Schindler, Eugene Helimski, Frederik Kortlandt and Alwin Kloekhorst).
The Indo-Uralic hypothesis has been questioned by recent linguistic data, contradicting previous argued cognates, finding no support for a genealogical relationship between Uralic and Indo-European.[4]
- ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (2004). "NIVKH AS A URALO-SIBERIAN LANGUAGE". researchgate.net.
- ^ Klein, Jared; Joseph, Brian; Fritz, Matthias (2018-06-11). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110542431.
- ^ Kallio, Petri (2019). "Daniel Europaeus and Indo-Uralic". The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European. The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. Leiden: Brill. pp. 74–87.
- ^ Grünthal, Riho; Heyd, Volker; Holopainen, Sampsa; Janhunen, Juha A.; Khanina, Olesya; Miestamo, Matti; Nichols, Johanna; Saarikivi, Janne; Sinnemäki, Kaius (2022-08-29). "Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread". Diachronica. 39 (4): 490–524. doi:10.1075/dia.20038.gru. ISSN 0176-4225.
Of what we take to be the two statistically soundest recent quantitative tests, Kessler and Lehtonen (2006), using a 100-item Swadesh-like wordlist, found no evidence for Indo-Uralic