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	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	(xð)		xj	xl	(xr)	xm	xn		23		i-stems only, some may be loans with long vowels
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	4	8	5	11	(1)	10	1	4