Welcome to the Uralic Typology Pages!  

Dénes Sinor - in memoriam 17.04.1916 - 12.01.2011                                                                                             The pages in Italian - in Russian 

Ilse Lehiste - in memoriam 31.01.1922 – 25.12.2010

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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 

• Finno-Ugristic students' conference IFUSCO,Tartu, May 8-11, 2012 (immediately following the International Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts). IFUSCO Facebook group.
• Negation in Uralic Languages, November 24-25, 2011, Stockholm.
• An international conference on Livonians ("Liivlased. Maa. Rahvas. Ajalugu") organised by the University of Tartu and the "Emakeele Selts", at the museum of the University of Tartu (Lossi 25), on 25 November from 12 to 17.
• Workshop on Sámi language legacy Uppsala 6-8 April 2011 
• LANGUAGE DEATH, ENDANGERMENT, DOCUMENTATION AND REVITALIZATION, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct. 20-22, 2011     
• 8th International Symposium "Languages, literature and culture of the peoples of the multiethnic Ural-Volga area", Yoshkar-Ola in August 2011 
• Variation and Typology: New trends in Syntactic Research. Helsinki, August 25 27, 2011 Including a workshop on Finnic.
• Fifth International Symposium on Finno-Ugric Languages in Groningen, June 7th-9th, 2011
• Uralic languages and multilingualism, Hamburg, June 2nd-4th, 2011
• L'Autunno Estone, Florence, November 10th-13th, 2010
• Primavera Ugrofinnica, Firenze, Italy, April-May, 2010
• Uralic Case, May 15th-16th, Budapest, Hungary
• 11th International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies in Piliscsaba 2010, the typology symposium, click here for the call, August 9-14, 2010, Piliscsaba, Hungary
• Negation in Uralic Languages, August 2010, Hungary
• Finno-Ugric Syntax and Universal Grammar, August 2010, Hungary
• PhD School on Uralic Typology in Tallinn, September 6th-7th, 2010 
• click here for links to past events

Fresh publications

• new 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.

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)

Upcoming 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.
• 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...

Useful courses in the region

• Conditionals (incl. Kratzer, Stalnaker), Central European University, Budapest, July 20-31, 2009

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

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

• 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
• 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)
• 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
• more dictionaries...
• 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).

Uralic documentation, blogs and sites

• Uralic Typology Database Project more in Russian
• Uralic glossing + Leipzig glossing rules
• Endangered languages in Siberia
• 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.
• 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

• 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 

more journals...

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 the Uralic languages? 

• Universities where you can study Estonian outside Estonia
• more links to universities...

Grants to research the Uralic languages 

• Estonian Research Information System
• Eesti Instituut grant Estophilus
• 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 concerened about keeping ther children's language

Elementary Practical Vocabulary in Uralic Languages (under construction)

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

Participants and consultants

This website is moderated and open to the general academic public. Please contact anne.tamm at unifi.it 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, Matti Miestamo, Seppo Kittilä)
• Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Ferenc Havas)
• University of Szeged (Marianne Bakró-Nagy)
• University of Florence (Anne Tamm)
• Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Anne Tamm)
• More links to consultants and participants