The Uralic languages form a language family of around thirty languages spoken by about twenty million people. This book focuses on nineteen of the major Uralic languages from Estonian to Samoyedic and discusses their structure, history and development.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great descriptions, if you study the Uralic branch.,
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This review is from: The Uralic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) (Paperback)
Routledge has a great line of language family books, which are very well written, but which are intended more for advanced learners/linguists and specialists looking for those minor (but never trivial) details on a language. This book is very well written and I am happy that such a publication exists because there isn't much available on the lesser known Uralic languages. My intention was to gain a better perspective on Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, and I was well pleased. Anyone looking into a more TECHNICAL side of these languages will be pleased. As an added note, do also look into Cambridge's material.
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Solid book but some chapters use idiosyncratic notation,
This review is from: The Uralic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) (Paperback)
This remains as of 2009 to be the most up-to-date yet affordable (in paperback form) survey on the Uralic languages.
Each chapter is written by a specialist in that language or linguistic sub-family and adheres broadly to the same layout. It is meant most for students of comparative linguistics or very keen students of any Uralic language who would like to get detailed synchronic descriptions of phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Uralic language that they're learning. One complaint with the book is that it is somewhat dated by using some reconstructions from Redei's etymological dictionary of Uralic languages rather than what is in Sammallahti's book on historical phonology of Uralic languages, which reflects more up-to-date scholarship relating to reconstructions in Uralic proto-languages (e.g. Proto-Finno-Ugric, Proto-Finno-Permic ("Permian")) Another complaint is that most of the chapters written by Daniel Abondolo use his mentor's (Robert Austerlitz) idiosyncratic notation to analyze words, which I found to be more of a hindrance than a help. Despite being explained at the outset, the notation diverges noticeably from traditional means or from the spelling conventions of the languages in question. In this case, the chapters for Finnish and Hungarian are littered with this notation beside every traditional or standard representation of Finnish and Hungarian words. As someone with an intermediate-level command of Hungarian and a beginning-level command of Finnish, I did not find his use of Austerlitz's convention in the Hungarian chapter to be helpful at all and learned to ignore it, settling for the conventional spelling as I had learned in my Hungarian and Finnish lessons. For people who have used Abondolo's course "Colloquial Finnish", they will probably be familiar with his taking such liberties (for those who don't know, Abondolo's "Colloquial Finnish" course presents grammar in an idiosyncratic way, and teaches much non-standard language from the beginning rather than introducing it at a later stage after students have gained more familiarity with the standard language). All in all "The Uralic Languages" is still a well-regarded reference work and apart from Abondolo's chapters, the chapters that were written by other specialists were often quite interesting and much easier on me as I did not have to spend much time filtering out unconventional means of analyzing morphemes. "The Uralic Languages" also has the advantage of being written in English. The nearest "competitor" available would be Denis Sinor's compilation of surveys and essays on the Uralic languages from 1988, titled "The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences". However it can be quite expensive (usually ~ $150 - $400 US as a reprint or even second-hand) and it contains contributions written in French and German in addition to English. Its utility would be less than optimal without having a good reading knowledge in those three languages.
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