Saamic historical phonetics

Abstract

In the first part of the present article the regular correspondences between consonants of Fenno-Saamic languages are demonstrated. The second part is devoted to the regular consonant correspondences between all Uralic branches or important languages, Fennic, Saamic, Mordva, Mari, Permian, Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi and Samoyedic. In the Appendix 1 the tree-diagram depicting the Fenno-Saamic languages is presented, the Appendix 2 mediates the tree-diagram of the Uralic language family. Both schemes are based on the recalibrated glottochronology.