Re: Questions about Hungarian

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0400, Trebor Jung wrote:
> Just a few questions:
>
> [snip]
>
> Trebor.
>
> P.S. How do the modern languages compare with PFU? What was PFU's phonemic
> inventory? How many cases did it have? What sort of changes did Finnish,
> Hungarian, Estonian etc. go through from PFU? Any information is
> appreciated.
Concerning pFU,

Citing a few examples from _The Saami Languages: An Introduction_
(Sammallahti), from PU to the present:

Of course, all examples are in FUPA, providing gems such as 'voiced
apical tense spirant' (probably [D] in X-SAMPA).

The following are X-SAMPA values:

Consonants: m n n_j N p t k x[1] tS ts_j s s_j S w D D_j j l r
Vowels: like Finnish, except [2] (AFAIK)

[1] It's value in FUPA is written as <x>, and is a place-holder for any
character. The example cited in PFU is <suxi->, <suhkat> /suhkaht/ "to row" in
North Sámi, probably related to Finnish <soutaa>.

Proto-Uralic cases: nominative, genitive (-n), accusative (-m), locative
(-na/nä), nom.pl (-t), oblique.pl suffix (-j-), acc.pl (-ti), abessive
(-ptak/ptäk).

That's all I can find.

--
vehke.