This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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I recently came across The Finno-Ugric World (ISBN 963-708-101-1), a revision and translation of the original Nyelvrokonaink published by the Hungarian National Organization of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples and edited by György Nanovfszky. It’s a splendid guide to the Finno-Ugrian languages and their speakers that, were it but actually obtainable in English-speaking countries, [...]
There’s something about Paleolithic Continuity Theory that has appealed lately to crackpots more than other theories of European language history. Kalevi Wiik, the Finnish scholar who claims that all of northern Europe was Finno-Ugrian-speaking before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans, has become an outcast in his own field but has gone on to provide inspiration [...]
Now that I finally have a library card, and now that lectures have finally begun, I can begin posting again. I’ve got lots of great material on the way, real stuff people actually would like to read, so I hope my meagre audience remains and maybe even new readers will come. My courses this semesters [...]