Conference proceedings are often interesting in that their lighter editorial control allows some odd ideas in. When I encountered this paper in the fourth volume of the papers from the Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum held in Turku in 1980, I wondered if the poor fellow presenting it was laughed out of the room. Otto J. [...]
In the Introduction to the Study of the Finno-Ugrian Languages course that I’m sitting in on again this year, the lecturer handed out a nice concise listing of similarities between Hungarian and Mansi—and differences between these two and Finnish—that show why traditionally Hungarian is grouped closely with the Ob-Ugrian languages. Hungarian Mansi Finnish hal xuul [...]
Continuing the dubious practise of using my notes as blog material, I figure that since I spent so much time translating the following handout by Prof Ulla-Maija Kulonen, I might as well make it available for others. One of the areas where Khanty and Mansi have grown apart is in nominal declension. Note the different [...]