Re: Uralic Continuity Theory (was: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white peo

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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
> The Finns were probably not late arrivals, the mainstream favours

the

> comb ceramic culture (predates Corded Ware).
> I pledged earlier not to start discussing migrations and Urheimats
> Jouppe

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>
> Yesterday
> I read
> "Comparative Grammar of Uralic languages"
> by Björn Collinder,
>
> There are at least two interesting points to be noted.
>
> He considers Finns to be late comers
> and states that the word Finn first applied
> to Lapp people
> before Finns arrived.
>
> The second point is (p150)
> he explicitly states that PU
> had long vowels,
>
> Arnaud
>
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>

The long vowels was the mainstream assumption of the time of
Collinder.
Today the reconstruction favours to explain Proto-Finno-Ugric long
vowels as PU vowel + the PU laryngeal /x/.
Jouppe