Welcome to the Uralic Typology Pages!  

                                                                                                                        The pages in Italian - in Russian 

This is the workspace for Uralic Typology. The interactive page contains the news about upcoming events, a forum and a collection of links and data sources on Uralic languages. The purpose of these pages is the following:

• to advance the scientific study of the Uralic languages (official languages as well as variants) and define their structures within the context of cross-linguistic diversity;
• to further mutual awareness, dialogue, and co-operation between the international community of linguists specialized on the particular Uralic languages and those interested in the Uralic data across theoretical frameworks and subdisciplines;
• to provide an interactive workspace for academic and educational events concerning the Uralic languages;
• to provide an interactive workspace for working towards a database structure (more in Russian) that is useful for linguists across linguistic frameworks, in the spirit of linguistic typology;
• and by doing so, to identify the areas of critically missing research and to increase the quality of education and the advancement of new curricula of the Uralic linguistics. 

Click here for the map of Uralic languages, see the links in Ethnologue, Wikipedia on the language family. Wikipedialinks to the Uralic languages: Samoyedic: Enets, Nenets,Nganasan, Selkup, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Mari, Erzya, Moksha, Sami (Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Northern Sami, Inari Sami, Akkala Sami, Kildin Sami, Skolt Sami, Ter Sami), Estonian, South Estonian (Võro; incl. Seto), Finnish (incl. Meänkieli, Kven Finnish, Ingrian Finnish), Ingrian(Izhorian), Karelian (Karelian proper, Lude, Olonets Karelian), Livonian, Veps, Votic. See also Glottopedia. See also our page on Selkup. Links to the Sign Languages spoken on the territories where Uralic languages are spoken Russia - Hungary - Finland - Estonia - Norway - Sweden - Romania - Slovakia - Ukraine - Serbia - Croatia - Austria

Events

• click here for links to past events
• CIFU Vienna 2020
• In memoriam Anne Vainikka
• In memoriam Paul Kokla  
• iwclul2019 https://sisu.ut.ee/iwclul2019/avaleht  
• CIFU in Oulu, 2015 
• ALT 11 in Albuquerque, 2015  
• BUW7 http://www.nytud.hu/buw7/
• link to a dissertation abstract, "защита диссертации Поздеевой Галины Петровны «Особенности числового согласования в диалектах селькупского языка (сравнительно-сопоставительный аспект)»" 

Fresh publications

• Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
• Eesti keele etümoloogia sõnastik
• Estonian-Udmurt dictionary online

• Kenesei, I., Vago, R. Fenyvesi, A., Hungarian: Descriptive Grammars Series, Routledge, London, 1998, 472pp.(link to the paperback edition 2010).

• Special Issue on Estonian Language, Language Typology and Universals 62, 1-2, ed. by Helle Metslang.

• István Papp "Unkarin kielen historia" in Hungarian, transl. by  Ágnes Kornyáné Szoboszlay 

Grammar Watch - to be developed into a database arranged by Subdiscipline, Keywords, Language, and Author

• Dissertations
• National and University Libraries
• Grammar Watch List containing Uralic sources at Association for Linguistic Typology
• The Uralic Languages an overview by Marianne Bakró-Nagy (27 pages) - Uralisztika
• Estonian Language Handbook (Eesti keele käsiraamat) 
• Bibliography under construction
• Indigenous Minority Languages of Russia by the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) & Kazuto Matsumura (Univ. of Tokyo)
• http://guide.finnug.de/ - Goettingen State and University Library's FinnUgGuide
• Virtual Library Northern European and Baltic Regional Studies - www.vifanord.de
  
• Open access e-textbooks in Estonian
• EKG I = Mati Erelt, Reet Kasik, Helle Metslang, Henno Rajandi, Kristiina Ross, Henn Saari, Kaja Tael, Silvi Vare, Silvi 1995. Eesti keele grammatika I. Morfoloogia, sõnamoodustus. Tallinn: Eesti TA Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituut (http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/handle/10062/29448)
•  EKG II = Mati Erelt, Reet Kasik, Helle Metslang, Henno Rajandi, Kristiina Ross, Henn Saari, Kaja Tael, Silvi Vare 1993. Eesti keele grammatika II. Süntaks. Lisa: Kiri. Tallinn: Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituut (http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/handle/10062/29437)  
• Niina Aasmäe's new introductory coursebook in Erzya
• Carol Rounds Hungarian Essential grammar 
• Диссертация Эрштадт Александры Михайловны «Лексика традиционных хозяйственных занятий кольских саамов (на материале кильдинского диалекта саамского языка)» 

Courses, links to courses and materials

• Some events will be available live online. The link to the virtual classroom can be found here. In order to access the room, enter your name on the website and hit an "enter" instead of a password
• the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian
• Mari summer school 2014: http://marsu.ru/summerschool2014
  
• Kuhu kuulub eesti keel? Video talk by Professor Helle Metslang, Chair of the National Scholarship of Estonia
  
• For students, January-February 2014: Erasmus Intensive Program in Szeged
  
• Oovtâst – Together. New concepts, theories and methodologies on Saami studies conference, Inari, Finland on September 25th–27th, 2013
  
• Jussi Ylikoski's course on the history of Saami linguistics, and a list of digitized classics (1650-1915) on the Internet.
  
•  Komi Permyak courses in summer 2011 
• Udmurt courses in Izhevsk 2011 
• Rigina Turunen defended her PhD thesis "Nonverbal predication in Erzya : Studies on morphosyntactic variation and part of speech distinctions".
• NordLing PhD course: Databases and typology, Tartu, September 13-18, 2009.
• Johanna Laakso's source list on her course Quellenkunde
• The course materials of the video course Typology and Databases (focus on Estonian and Finnish) by Metslang/Tamm, Tartu-Szeged-Budapest-Vienna-Florence cooperation in 2009, are here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Click for more...
• Селькупы: Очерки традиционной культуры и селькупского языка: монография / Н. А. Тучкова, С. В. Глушков, Е. Ю. Кошелева, А. В. Головнёв, А. В. Байдак, Н. П. Максимова; Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет. – Томск: Изд-во Томского политехнического университета, 2012. – 318 с.

Uralic databases

• The Prototype Data Structure for the Uralic Typology Database by Prof. Havas more in Russian
• Typology of Negation in Ob‑Ugric and Samoyedic Languages at the University of Vienna
• www.copius.eu 
• Hamburg corpora and data 

Uralic projects

• Typology of Negation in Ob‑Ugric and Samoyedic Languages (University of Vienna)
• Morphosyntactic structure and development of Estonian
• Cross-categorial case (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
• The coding of R (Recipient/Goal) arguments: Cross-linguistic, Uralic, diachronic and experimental perspectives (University of Helsinki)
• more projects...

Uralic corpora and sources of texts

• Info and links: The new corpora of spoken Finnish (comprising more than three million words) 
• The corpora of texts of Estonian (of the University of Tartu, of the Institute of the Estonian Language)
• The corpora of texts of Hungarian (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian National Corpus, Historical Corpus)
• The materials of KOTUS, the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberiai- work in progress: http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/ 
• links for the projects at various periods based out of Tomsk Laboratory of Indigenous Siberian Languages.
• Early documentation projects: 
1. (i) Eastern Khanty: http://www.policy.hu/filtchenko/Documenting%20Eastern%20Khanty/index.htm
2. (ii) Eastern Khanty: http://www.policy.hu/filtchenko/FTG%20ELDP%20project/
3. (iii) Khanty, Selkup, Ket, Nganasan, Chulym Turkic: http://siblang.tspu.ru/project09/RUSS/

• More recent documentation projects:
1. (iv) Eastern Khanty: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI514585
2. (v) Southern Selkup & Eastern Khanty: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI43298
3. (vi) Teleut: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI43297

• Ongoing documentation project:
1. (vii) Chulym Turkic, Teleut & Sberian Tatar: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1044686

• Databank for Endangered Finno-Ugrian Languages - last updated 15 March 1999
• The Bibles
• Orwell 1984 aligned sentences Estonian Hungarian
• more links...

Uralic online dictionaries

• Keelevara (Estonian) 
• http://www.redfoxsanakirja.fi/ 
• UraloNet (on the basis of Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (UEW, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986–1989), Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Univ. of Koblenz)
• Morphologic (Hungarian)
• the Mari dictionary
• Mari-English Dictionary
• Võro – eesti
• Budinos
• Karelian
• North-Mansi - Hungarian
• Dictionary of Finnish Dialects 
• on Uralic dictionaries and lexical resources
• if you need to write a dictionary with a Uralic language as one of the languages, here is the link to further information about how to obtain a Uralic-X base for the dictionary (for instance, the materials and contacts of the projects Estonian-X at the Institute of Estonian Language, Tallinn).
• more dictionaries...

Uralic documentation, blogs and sites

• Uralic Typology Database Project more in Russian
• Uralic glossing + Leipzig glossing rules
•  The Blog of the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages – National Library of Finland 
• Endangered languages in Siberia
• Three Estonian Linguists exhibition https://kolm-keelemeest.weebly.com/ 
• LangueDOC (Nganasan and Enets)
• The Laboratory for Computational Lexicography, the Scientific Research Computer Center at Moscow State University 
• Rénhírek Hungarian blogspot
• Rokonszenv and Finnugor.lap.hu in Hungarian, commented links on Uralic cultures, incl. linguistic sources
• Information Center of Finnougric Peoples
• Kolyma Yukaghir (Nikolaeva)
• Finno-Ugric TV (Russian Federation)
• Mari Radio
• Three talks about the current state of the art in the Uralic studies, applications for the Professorship of Uralic Studies in Tartu - video
• Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia [pdf]
• A site for the Mari language 
• Skolt Sami Koltansaame, perintökieli – edited by Eino Koponen, Jouni Moshnikoff and Satu Moshnikoff,  texts and audio files.
• http://uralica.kansalliskirjasto.fi/
• more sites....

Other typological databases containing Uralic languages

• World Atlas of Language Structures
• Typological Database System
• Autotyp
• SSWL, an open-ended database of the syntactic structures of the world's languages
• Ethnologue
• The Universals Archive
• Foundation for Endangered Languages 
• more databases...

Journals and series of publications on Uralic languages

•  Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics (FULL)
• Linguistica Uralica
• the publications of the Finno-Ugrian Society
• Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja, JSFOu/SUSA)
• Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für finnisch-ugrische Sprach- und Volkskunde (FUF)
• Ural-Altaic Studies 
• Lähivõrdlusi/Lähivertailuja
• Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, the only peer-reviewed journal in Saami languages
  

more journals...

Comprehensive volumes

• Negation in Uralic Languages
• Abondolo Uralic Languages 

Typological and Uralic societies, associations, and lists

• LINGTYP list: archives and subscription
• Association for Linguistic Typology
• the Finno-Ugrian Society
• Ur-Typol
• URALIST: archives and subscription
• U-SOS: archives and subscription
• Saami Documentation and Revitalization Network
• ugrimugri
• Swadesh list for Finnic languages
• Swadesh list for Finno-Ugric languages

Typological journals

• Linguistic Typology
• STUF, Language Typology and Universals
• Studies in Language

Fieldworker's kit

• L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials

Where to study or research the Uralic languages? 

• Universities where you can study Estonian outside Estonia
• ILI RAN
• more links to universities...
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Grants to research the Uralic languages 

• Estonian Research Information System
• Eesti Instituut grant Estophilus
• Koneen Säätiö
• Native Uralic researchers can apply for conferences in Estonia
• more links to grants...

Pages specialized on the Uralic languages (under construction)

• Enets, Nenets, Nganasan, Selkup, Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Mari, Erzya, Moksha, Sami, Estonian, South Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian(Izhorian), Karelian, Livonian, Veps, Votic.

Links to some newspaper articles

Low Society - Glamorous Grassroots: Links to NGOs, initiatives, etc

Parents' page: Materials for Parents who are concerned about keeping their children's language

Elementary Practical Vocabulary in Uralic Languages (under construction)

•  numbers
• welcome
• I love you
• thank you
• diversity is a value
• pronouns 

Participants and consultants

This website is moderated and open to the general academic public. Please contact anne.tamm at jhu.edu for adding new information.This page is created in cooperation between the representatives of the following institutions:

• University of Tartu (Helle Metslang, Sveta Edygarova)
• University of Vienna (Johanna Laakso)
• Institute of the Estonian Language (Sven-Erik Soosaar)
• University of Helsinki (Riho Grünthal, Seppo Kittilä)
• University of Stockholm (Matti Miestamo)
• Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Ferenc Havas)
• University of Szeged (Katalin Sipőcz)
• Central European University (Anne Tamm)
• Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Marianne Bakró-Nagy)
• More links to consultants and participants