Re: A dialogue in Old Urianian.

Hi!

John Vertical  writes:
>...
> Oh, and while /B D G/ are pretty fitting for western Uralic, the
> aspiration isn't; AIUI no Uralic language has any (post)aspirates
> whatsoever. It might be fitting here to postulate some yet older
> population; and the presence of another language with voiced spirants
> there might also explain why Samic is the only (I think) Uralic branch
> to preserve PU /D/...
>...
Sorry about my question, I am not an expert of Finno-Ugric langs, but
I thought that standard Finnish orthography preserves {d} because
there are some dialects that still pronounce it /D/.  Most dialects, I
thought, just do not pronounce the {d} graphemes, but some do.  If
this /D/ is the PU /D/, this would contradict that only Sami preserved
it.  OTOH, I suppose this would be too obvious a contradiction for you
to overlook, right?  Or is this phenomenon of those Finnish
dialects Sami influence?

**Henrik

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