Proto-Uralic

Subpages & such

• Sound changes to Finnish
• Sound changes to Proto-Samoyedic
• Data for reduced vowels
• Data for back unrounded vowels *a *ë
• Data for *ä
• Data for *ü
• Potential derivativs
• Cluster issues

Medial consonant clusters

Words included chiefly from appendix from this: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20071746 (see comments in table code)

CF: http://books.google.fi/books?id=TM2NQ78dP2wC&pg=PA492&dq=phonotactics+of+PFU

2nd → 1st ↓		p	t	č	k	s	ś	ð	ðʲ	w	j	l	r	m	n	ŋ	∑		Notes		Frequency color code
N	m	mp	mt			ms	mś		N/A								5		mostly i-stems		single root
	n		nt	nč			nś										13				two roots
	ń						ńś										1		might not be distinct from *nś		3-4 roots
	ŋ		ŋt		ŋk	ŋs											8				5-6 roots
P	p	pp	pt			ps	pś	pð									7				~10 roots
	t				tk												3
	č				čk												1
	k		kt		kk	ks	kś										11
S	s				sk												2		both i-stems
	ś				śk												4		mostly i-stems + *wäśka
(?)	x		xt	xč		xs	xś		xðʲ		xj	xl	xr	xm	xn		23		i-stems only
L	l		lt		lk					lw	lj			lm		lŋ	21
	lʲ				lʲk												1
	r	rp	rt		rk					rw				rm			10		mostly back-harmonic
(?)	ðʲ				ðʲk					ðʲw							2
sV	w	N/A?						wð			wj	wl				wŋ	5		after e ä a only
	j									jw				jm		jŋ	6		after ä a o only
∑		4	17	7	31	8	10	3	1	8	5	11	1	10	1	4