Eskimo–Uralic languages

The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis posits that the Uralic and Eskimo–Aleut language families belong to a common language family of which they are the two branches. Although substantial arguments for the hypothesis have been made, it is not generally accepted by linguists. The best-known advocate of the Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis is Knut Bergsland. The hypothesis dates back to the pioneering Danish linguist Rasmus Rask in 1818, upon noticing similarities between the languages of Greenlandic and Finnish. For a similar hypothesis see Uralo-Siberian languages.

Eskimo–Uralic
(hypothetical)
Geographic
distribution		northern Eurasia and far northern North America
Linguistic classificationProposed language family
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

Cognates

A few potential lexical cognates between Proto-Uralic and Eskimo–Aleut are pointed out in Aikio (2019: 53–54).[1] These are:

Proto-UralicProto-Eskimo
*ila- ‘place under or below’*at(ǝ)- ‘down’; *alaq ‘sole’
*elä- ‘live’*ǝt(ǝ)- ‘be’
*tuli- ‘come’*tut- ‘arrive, land’; *tulaɣ-
*kuda ‘morning, dawn’*qilaɣ- ‘sky’
*kuda- ‘weave’*qilaɣ- ‘knit, weave’

A regular sound correspondence with Uralic *-l- and Proto-Eskimo-Aleut *-t can be seen.[1]

See also

Bibliography
  • Aikio, Ante (2019). "Proto-Uralic". In Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena (eds.). Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Bergsland, Knut. 1959. "The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis." Journal de la Societé finno-ougrienne 61, 1-29.
  • Bergsland, Knut. 1979. "The comparison of Eskimo-Aleut and Uralic." Fenno-Ugrica Suecana 2, 7-18.
  • Georg, Stefan; Seefloth, Uwe. "Uralo-Eskimo?". Academia.edu. San Francisco, California: Academia, Inc.
  • Seefloth, Uwe. 2000. "Die Entstehung polypersonaler Paradigmen im Uralo-Sibirischen." Zentralasiatische Studien 30, 163–191.

References
  1. Aikio, Ante (2019). "Proto-Uralic". In Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena (eds.). Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.


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