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Nyelvek, népek, térképek (Néhány észrevétel Juha Janhunen hipotéziséhez)
LANGUAGES, PEOPLES, MAPS (Remarks on Juha Janhunen’s hypothesis)

Author(s): István Fodor
Subject(s): Archaeology, Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Uralic languages; Altaic languages; Uralic homeland; Altaic homelands; Siberia; languages and migrations; archaeological research; maps, chronology

Summary/Abstract: Juha Janhunen has recently presented his new theory on the formation and spread of the Uralian language family, according to which Proto-Uralic emerged in eastern Siberia in the vicinity of Proto-Altaic. The Uralic languages later spread from this region as far as Scandinavia and Central Europe. However, this theory is essentially no more than hypothetical linguistic speculation since it does not take into account the evidence of the history of various peoples, principally the fact that there is nothing in the archaeological record to indicate that there was a large-scale migration from eastern Siberia to eastern Europe during the Stone Age.

  • Issue Year: 141/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 217-229
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian